Quotes about Success

The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress. We think that just because people are busy and doing a lot of stuff that we are being successful. The fact of the matter is, if all that activity isn't taking you where you want to go, then it's just wasted time.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Life is like a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini has an engine, a body, and wheels. No matter how strong your engine is, if you don't have any wheels, you're not going anywhere.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

It feels good to be productive.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.