Successful Individuals Quotes

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Successful, Perfection, Champion

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• Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

  Paul Ryan

  Successful, Achievement, Community

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• I had a lot of ups and downs. I always said that if I were in a position to give back, I would and I have. As my name became bigger, I started giving. You want to make that connection with people who are less fortunate. It keeps you in touch with reality. When you become a successful individual, and have a thousand tasks going on, you forget that there are people in need. It keeps me grounded.

  Shawne Merriman

  Successful, Reality, Names

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• All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Hard Work, Successful, People

  Mary Baker Eddy (1972). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

  Bob Burg

  Successful, Long, Influence

  Bob Burg (2013). “Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion”, p.14, Penguin

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• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Strong, Children

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

  Harvey Mackay

  Successful, Names, Individual

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• New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

  Ernst Mayr

  Successful, Glowing, Giving

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

  Robert D. Hare

  Successful, Ideas, People

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• Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

  Walter E. Williams

  Successful, Winning, Men

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• A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

  Kurt Lewin

  Time, Successful, Goal

  "Resolving social conflicts; selected papers on group dynamics" edited by Gertrude W. Lewin New York: Harper & Row, 1948, p. 133; as cited in "Schooling & Capitalism: A Sociological Reader" by Roger Dale, Madeleine MacDonald, Geoff Esland, (p. 111), 1976.

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• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  H. G. Wells

  Successful, Atheism, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.68, H. G. Wells

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• If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

  Naveen Jain

  Humility, Successful, Journey

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2016

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