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Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.
There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.
Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.
Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.
It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
There are a lot of millionaires being created in China. We should all be seeking that business, and I think there's enough to go around.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.