Quotes on Success

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.