Quotes about Success
A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.
— Reid Hoffman
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.
— Brian Tracy
Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.
— Mark Lanegan
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.
— John Maxwell
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
— Anne Frank
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
— Stephen Covey
I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
— Steve Jobs
Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
— Steve Jobs
Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.
— Frances Tiafoe
Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.
— Tim Henman
Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.
— Reid Hoffman