Success Quotes - Page 87

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.