Quotes about Success

In fact, the habit of setting and achieving ever-larger goals is absolutely indispensable to the development of ever-higher levels of self-confidence and personal power.

The number one reason why some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives and they don't deviate from them.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

Do what the top people do.

Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.