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Success Quotes


"Don't wait, just sweat."


"Success brings a measure of credibility. The fastest way to turn credibility into authority is to deliver results. The best way to deliver results is to help others succeed. You can help others succeed by being helpful. Always look for ways to be helpful. Helpful people are always in demand."


"Failure results from broken focus, and an average person with complete unwavering focus can achieve more than a team of geniuses with broken focus."


"As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through."


"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."


"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without paying the price. It takes an attitude of hard work, commitment and purpose."


"For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity."


"Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was."


"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future."


"What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it."


"To be successful you must be willing to leave your comfort zone. Even then success is not guaranteed."


"Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win."


"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."


"I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission."


"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."


"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."


"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds."



"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."


"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective."


"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."


"I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty."


"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."


"I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years."


"It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty."


"Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America."


"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated."


"I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success."


"I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take."


"It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential."


"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."


"The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior."


"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks.""


"Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law."


"It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch."


"It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards."


"Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful."
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