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- There are two rules for success:
1) Never tell everything you know. - Roger H. Lincoln
- Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
- Unknown
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
- Emerson
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
- Robert P. Vanderpoel
- The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
- Roy L. Smith
- Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
- Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), On Education
- Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
- Author Unknown
- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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