Success quotes

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.

Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

There is no substitute for hard work.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.