Success Quotes - Page 78

Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without it, you can't be successful. But luck is something you have to stimulate, something you have to nurture through the choices you make...That's why things have always worked out for me. Things work out not just because I'm lucky, but because I plan ahead. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I've always spent a lot of time trying to surround myself with the right people, the kinds of teammates who could lead me to my goals.

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.