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Success Quotes


"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success."


"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."


"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."


"Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor."


"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."


"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."



"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent."


"Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it."


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


"Success is never achieved for when your think you reach it, something else grabs your interest."


"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success."


"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."


"Successful people have always been the ones to learn from the mistakes of others as well as from their successes."


"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."



"Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk."


"I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to."


"The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today!"



"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."


"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."


"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."


"If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful."


"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."


"The best way to compete is to get defeat."


"Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful."


"To be real successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish; then resolve to pay the price to get it."


"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."


"I'm a winner because I always bet on you."


"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."


"What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster."


"Get in the habit of visualizing yourself standing at the victory line of your dream, but at the same time, be sure to accompany your positive imagination with consistent actions."


"Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."


"I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous."


"On the journey to achievement, you must be learning all the time."


"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."


"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
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