Successful People Quotes - Page 17

• Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.

  Neal Boortz

  Home, Successful, Dark

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• Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

  Josh Kaufman

  School, Successful, People

  Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.46, Penguin

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• Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.

  Todd Blackledge

  Success, Humility, Humble

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• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

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• My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

  Ben Stein

  Successful, People, Parent

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• Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

  Darren Hardy

  Successful, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 26, 2014

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• Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Successful, People, Energy

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• Successful people in real estate are nicest people you can know.

  Wendy Alexander

  Real, Successful, People

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• People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

  Tim Ferriss

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

  Peter Senge

  Successful, People, Common

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• The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, People, World

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• Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Successful, Thinking

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• Working really hard is what successful people do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, People, Outliers

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• Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

  John Spence

  Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

  John Spence (2011). “Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action (Large Print 16pt)”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

  Grant Cardone

  Confused, Successful, People

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Jun 28, 2016

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• The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, People, Quality

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer.

  Danny Ford

  Book, Athlete, Successful

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• The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

  Christina Aguilera

  Successful, People, Energy

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• Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.

  Ja Rule

  Selfish, Successful, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.

  Darren Hardy

  Successful, Differences, People

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Successful, People, Wealthy

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• Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

  Britney Spears

  Successful, People, Sometimes

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• Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

  Rod Steiger

  Morning, Successful, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

  Robert Fulghum

  Successful, Impact, Intangible Quality

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• If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, World

  Brian Tracy (2009). “The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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