Success Quotes

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.

Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.