Best 12414 quotes in «success quotes» category

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

I have had all the disadvantages required for success.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove.

I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.

I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.

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.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

I'm astonished by my success.

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.