Quotes on Success

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

Success is only meaningful - and enjoyable - if it feels like your own.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.