Success Quotes - Page 116

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

All great success is preceded by failure.

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Applause waits on success.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.