Quotes on Success

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.