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Success Quotes


"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."


"If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that."


"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."


"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."


"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."


"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."


"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."


"I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style."


"The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose."


"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."


"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it."


"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."


"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."


"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."


"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."


"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."


"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."


"No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate."


"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."


"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."


"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."



"It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!"


"The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence."


"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."


"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."


"The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment."


"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."


"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."


"The only person standing between your dreams and making them a reality is YOU."


"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."


"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."


"With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in."


"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."


"C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group."
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