Quotes on Formula For Success

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.