Success Quotes

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie

1. "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." -- Bruce Barton

2. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success." - Thomas J. Watson

3. "The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight." -Mark Caine

4. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." - Christopher Morley

5. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." - Christopher Morley

6. "When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success." Orison Swett Marden

7. Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building." Robert Collier

8. "Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."Marva Collins

9. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi

10. "Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland

11. If you care at all,you'll get some results.If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.

12. "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons

13. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti - race car driver

14. "No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." Charles Kendall Adams

15. "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." Benjamin Disraeli

16. The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't.

17. "I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." John H. Johnson

18. Unless you change how you are,you will always have what you've got.

19. "My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward." David Thomas

20. "A stumble may prevent a fall." English Proverb

21. Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

22. "God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." Swedish Proverb

23. "Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life." Laing Burns, Jr.

24. "Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword

25. "Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road." Laing Burns, Jr.

26. "There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit." Laing Burns, Jr.

27. "Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue these are the means of success, not caste or family." Mahabharata

28. We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

29. "Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are. . . . It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It's like the perfume of the flower ? unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. And it can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth." George Matthew Adams

30. It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom .

31. "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen." Phillip Adams

32. The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time.That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

33. "Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations." Charles Francis Adams II

34. "Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." Aeschylus

35. "When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in." Aeschylus

36. "Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us." George Allen

37. "My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women." Woody Allen

38. "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." Woody Allen

39. "He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end." Henri Fr?d?ric Amiel

40. "Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of Yale University, Dr. James R. Angell explained: "Grow antennae, not horns." Dr. James Rowland Angell

41. "A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead." Anonymous

42. Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

43. "A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job." Anonymous

44. "Act as though it is impossible to fail." Anonymous

45. "Act as though it is impossible to fail." Anonymous

46. "An Unfailing Success Plan: At each day?s end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them." Anonymous

47. "As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall." Anonymous

48. "Be self-reliant and your success is assured." Anonymous

49. "Choice, not circumstances, determines your success." Anonymous

50. "Confidence is the companion of success." Anonymous

51. My goal is to translate response into results.Some teachers teach for others to learn.That's not me.Some teachers teach for others to accomplish.That is me.

52. "Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it." Anonymous

53. "Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else." Anonymous

54. "He who does not tire, tires adversity." Anonymous

55. The most important question to ask on the job is not "what am I getting?" The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

56. "If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised." Anonymous

57. "If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please." Anonymous

58. Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

59. "In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail." Anonymous

60. "It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final." Anonymous

61. "Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up." Anonymous

62. "Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success." Anonymous

63. "No one can change another person?s beliefs. But you can be accepting of his beliefs and then slowly build an influence for the other person to change himself." Anonymous

64. "Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success. When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed." Anonymous

65. "So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence." Anonymous

66. "Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." Anonymous

67. "Success comes before work only in the dictionary." Anonymous

68. The real oppurtunity for success lies within the person and not in the job .

69. "Success does not come to those who wait . . . and it does not wait for anyone to come to it." Anonymous

70. "Success in our calling is the result of a person?s love of and belief in the work he has undertaken. Earnest and conscientious labor often accomplishes more in the end than brilliant genius." Anonymous

71. "Success is not access to excess." Anonymous

72. "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." Anonymous

73. Life is a unique combination of "want to"and"how to"and we need to give equal attention to both.

74. "Success is still the constant application of the Golden Rule." Anonymous

75. "Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do." Anonymous

76. Take Time: Take time to think- It is the source of all power. Take time to read- It is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to play- It is the source of perpetual youth. Take time to be quiet- It is the opportunity to seek God. Take time to be aware- It is the opportunity to help others. Take time to love and be loved- It is God?s greatest gift. Take time to laugh- It is the music of the soul. Take time to be friendly- It is the road to happiness. Take time to dream- It is what the future is made of. Take time to pray- It is the greatest power on earth. Take time to give- It is too short a day to be selfish. Take time to work- It is the price of success. There is a time for everything. . . .[Ecclesiastes 3:1-8]Bible

77. "The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams?come true."Anonymous

78. "The Lord gives us a plan to follow. It is outlined in His commandments. And all those commandments are designed to build stability within us. We are not to excuse our failures and weaknesses: We are not to say we are made the way we are, And thereby justify our sins. The Lord expects us to rise above our weakness, become strong, and pattern ourselves after Him.Anonymous

79. Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do the things you need to do when you need to them,and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do them!

80. "The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success."Anonymous

81. Life asks us to make measurable progress in a reasonable time.That's why they make those fourth grade chair so small.

82. "To enter heaven, a man must take it with him."Anonymous

83. "Two rules of success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know."Anonymous

84. "What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become?"Anonymous

85. "Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success."Anonymous

86. "Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding."Anonymous

87. "You cannot sit on the road to success for if you do, you will get run over."Anonymous

88. "You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much."Anonymous

89. "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."H.W. Arnold Part of success is preparation on purpose. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."Arthur Ashe

90. "The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."Lady Nancy Astor

91. What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

92. "It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres." Marcus Aurelius Antonimus

93. "One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic ? something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word ?decide? contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, ?With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin." Maltbie Davenport Babcock

94. "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."Roger Ward Babson

95. "I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful." Johann Sebastian Bach

96. "Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best."Bernard Mannes baruch

97. "If there is any one axiom that I have tried to live up to in trying to become successful in business, it is the fact that I have tried to surround myself with associates that know more about business than I do. This policy has always been very successful and is still working for me."Monte L. Bean

98. "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider ? and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation ? persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."Alexander Graham Bell

99. "Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and?knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" Joachim Du Bellay

100. "Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided."Warren G. Bennis

101. "You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30.)"Ezra Taft Benson

102. "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."Irving Berlin

103. Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there . Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

104. "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."Al Bernstein

105. "Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man." Frederick Edwin Smith, Lord Birkenhead

106. "If at first you don?t succeed, think how many people you?ve made happy."H. Duane Black

107. "The victory o? success is half won when one gains the habit of work."Sarah Knowles Bolton

108. "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."Erma Bombeck

109. "Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods." Frank E. Brennan

110. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." Dr. Joyce Brothers

111. To respond is positive, to react is negative.

112. "Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned."Struther Burt

113. "Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

114. Success is the study of the Obvious.Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

115. "The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit?that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory." Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton "They never fail who die in a great cause."George Gordon, Lord Byron

116. "Success in business implies optimism, mutual confidence, and fair play. A business man must hold a high opinion of the worth of what he has to sell and he must feel that he is a useful public servant."R.H. Cabell

117. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."Herman Cain

118. "The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many?fathers, failures have none." Philip Caldwell

119. "The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass." Albert Camus

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them." Albert Camus

120. You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.

121. "It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." Eddie Cantor

122. "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." Truman Capote

123. "I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line." Andrew Carnegie

124. "Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket." Andrew Carnegie

125. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." Dale Carnegie

126. "Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie

127. "When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here?namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition." Jack Mack Carter

128. There are some things you don't have to know how it works.The main thing is that it works.While some people are studying the roots,others are picking the fruit. It just depends which end of this you want to get in on.

129. "Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

130. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." Winston Churchill

131. "No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it." Winston Churchill

132. Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of oppurtunity for you and countless others. Zig Ziglar

133. "There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success." Winston Churchill

134. "There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it." Bourke Cockran

135. "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." confucius

136. "Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries. Is not the goal but the exercise." Edmund Vance Cooke

137. "I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." Bill Cosby

138. "An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way?that leads to collective organizational success." Stephen Covey

139. "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." Quentin Crisp

140. At the end of each you should play back the tapes of your performance. The result should either applaud youor prod you.

141. "To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do." Paul Cummings

142. "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." Anthony D'Angelo

143. "History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles." William Danforth

144. "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." Josephus Daniels

145. If we don't start,it's certain we can't arrive.

146. "I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead." Edgar Degas

147. "Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue." Demosthenes

148. "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." Emily Dickinson

149. "Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can?t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C?s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence." Walt Disney

150. "As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life." Benjamin Disraeli

151. "The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,?a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others." Benjamin Disraeli

152. "The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information." Benjamin Disraeli

153. "The secret of success is constancy to purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

154. "What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens." Benjamin Disraeli

155. "Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself." W.C. Doane

156. "Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." Dowden

157. Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

158. "Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them." Dick Van Dyke

159. "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan

160. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

161. "If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut." Albert Einstein

162. "The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career." Albert Einstein

163. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives." Albert Einstein

164. "We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." Eisenhower

165. "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." Ralph Waldo Emerson

166. "Self-trust is the first secret of success." Ralph Waldo Emerson

167. "There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day." Ralph Waldo Emerson

168. Your business is never really good or bad "out there" your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one's self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived ? This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson

169. "Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." Euripides

170. "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." Sam Ewing

171. "What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements." Benjamin Fairless

172. Success is not to be pursued;it is to be attracted by the person we become. Jim Rohn

"Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it." William Feather

"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." Franklin Field

"Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating." Marshall Field

"Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." Sherman Finesilver

"Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal." Gustave Flaubert

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." B.C. Forbes

"Failure is success if we learn from it." Malcolm Forbes

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." Henry Ford

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." Benjamin Franklin

"Good is not good where better is expected." Thomas Fuller

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Gagehot

"I buy when other people are selling." J. Paul Getty

"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist." J.Paul Getty

"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character." Vince Gill

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." Jean Giraudoux

"On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long." Goethe

"The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement." Goethe

"Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world." Gotthold

"Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don?t like to do." Albert Gray

"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve." Haldane

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." Alexander Hamilton

"Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory." Orison Sweet Marden

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." Thomas Edison

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!" Brian Tracy

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems." Mark Victor Hansen

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish." Brian Tracy

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. Jim Rohn

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." John Milton

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." Jim Rohn

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." Ben Stein

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." John D. Rockefeller

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." E.M. Gray

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more." Michael Gerber