Success Quotes - Page 154

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.

I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

What you get free costs too much.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.