The formula for success
You are the only one who can limit your greatness.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.
If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.
The most successful people change the world not through sweat and tears but through ideas and passion. It is not a matter of hard work or time on the job; it is having a different view, an original idea, something that expresses their individuality and creativity. Success comes from thinking, then acting on those thoughts.
Golden rules for career success:
1. Specialize in a very small niche; develop a core skill
2. Choose a niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming an acknowledged leader
3. Realize that knowledge is power
4. Identify your market and your core customers and serve them best
5. Identify where 20 percent of effort gives 80 percent of returns
6. Learn from the best
7. Become self-employed early in your career
8. Employ as many net value creators as possible
9. Use outside contractors for everything but your core skill
10. Exploit capital leverage
One small step + desired behavior = high probability of further steps.
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
The road to success is paved with mistakes well handled.
Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
People successful in life, in business, and in relationships are living into a process that leads to excellence; these are the people who get up early to work out, who say no to crappy food, who carve out time for learning and mindfulness.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
The desire to succeed needs to be stronger than the fear of failure.
Nothing stands between us and success but our will to win.
We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.
The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success.
The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, ‘Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Focusing on progress and not results is the fastest way to reach high levels of success.
To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.
I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.
Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.
Success is not something that happens to you; it's something that happens because of you and because of the actions you take.
All too often, the words we have said to ourselves when things went wrong contributed to the problem—instead of making it better or helping us solve it.
If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
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