Quotes on Success

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.