Success Quotes - Page 35

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Success is a great deodorant.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'