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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.
We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.
Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.
In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything!
Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.