Success

Success is a goal that only you can define. You may not achieve it the first time you try, but you'll never achieve it unless you try.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham, Novelist (1874-1965)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Arthur Brisbane

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
David O. McKay

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napolean Hill

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
Theodore Roosevelt

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

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.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it; adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
The Road to Business Success: a talk to young men, Curry Commercial College, Pittsburg, June 23, 1885
Andrew Carnegie

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Business Negotiations, Chapter XII, 1920
Andrew Carnegie

The true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
Andrew Carnegie

No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
Andrew Carnegie

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
Michael Dell

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

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

When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison

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

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Henry Ford

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
Bill Gates

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab

Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Success depends on staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
J. Miller

Success is a result, not a goal.
Flaubert

Align people's passions with the priorities and you'll achieve performance.
Steve Brown

He claimed that the reason he was so good at hockey was that he didn't go where the puck was, he went where he felt the puck was going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization
Fred Fiedler

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State 2001-2005

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
Carl Lewis, 1961 Olympic Track Star

Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success: Trust your gut.
Larry Flynt

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable.
George Bernard Shaw

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles Schwab, American stockbroker

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
Oprah Winfrey

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

The secret in business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onasis

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you`re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal

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

Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch.
Peter McArthur

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Some people dream of success - while others wake up and work hard at it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler, British writer

The race for quality has no finish line.

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
Lee Iacocca

Communications is the key to success

Success is never final.
Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver.
Tom Peters

Someday you will get your big chance - or have you already had it?

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Orlando A. Battista

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successor has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
Mark Caine

First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle

I like a business that, when it's not managed at all, still makes lots of money. That's my kind of business.
Warren Buffett

Stocks are simple. All you do is buy shares in a great business for less than the business is intrinsically worth, with managers of highest integrity and ability. Then you own those shares forever.
Warren Buffett

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
John Maynard Keynes