success quotes

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Success is the child of audacity.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

America is another name for opportunity.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I am results-oriented.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Of course, I do everything for money.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.