Success Quotes
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I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
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When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.
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I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.
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Faithfulness to one's calling is ultimately the only true measure of success. By your faithfulness you will change people and creation according to God's plan.
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Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
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Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
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The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
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Success is no accident or serendipity. I had all the odds against me, and I crushed each and everyone along the way. Not because I was a Democrat or a Republican. Not because of my attitudes about social issues. Not because of what my background is or isn’t. Not because people think I’m a nice guy. I succeeded because I’m a capitalist, I’m an entrepreneur, and I’m a warrior. That is the mindset I want to teach others so they can create their own wealth and American success story.
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The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.
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The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
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I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
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That’s the thing about success: It’s a constant hustle. Success is never owned—it’s rented, and rent is due every damn.
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
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The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.
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Success to me does not mean money.
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Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need to think about how you leverage the assets that are there.
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Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.
