Quotes About A Successful Person

#1. A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Ray Kurzweil

#2. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

#3. Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.

M.F. Moonzajer

#4. A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Kemmons Wilson

#5. I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.

Riccardo Tisci

#6. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

#7. I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

Ferdie Pacheco

#8. I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

Cindy McCain

#9. Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Fannie Flagg

#11. A successful person will never use the word 'no', 'I cannot' or 'it is impossible

Sunday Adelaja

#12. A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
By John Maxwell

John C. Maxwell

#13. A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.

Maddy Malhotra

#14. Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

Rick Warren

#16. Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

#17. You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.

Amit Kalantri

#18. I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

King Hussein I

#19. Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."

T. Harv Eker

#20. Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go ... and that's one of the reasons they're successful.

Alex Trebek

#21. How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

Nicole Haislett

#23. COMMON SENSE CONCLUSION: Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and effectively manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing conditions of our times.

Lee Johnson

#24. If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

T. Harv Eker

#25. A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

Behdad Sami

#26. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.

Tim Yarbrough

#27. You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're aninfinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. For that reason, you must avoid being attached to it in any way.

Wayne Dyer

#28. A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.

Anthony Liccione

#29. People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.

Dennis Washington

#30. If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

Frederick Lenz

#31. A successful person never loses ... they either win or learn!

John Calipari

#32. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

David J. Schwartz

#33. Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps ... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.

Harvey MacKay

#35. A complainer rarely succeeds; a successful person rarely complains.

Debasish Mridha

#36. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

David Brinkley

#37. There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

Harvey MacKay

#38. I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.

M.F. Moonzajer

#39. I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

#40. In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Umberto Eco

#41. Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

Lee Johnson

#42. A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

#43. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

#44. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump

#46. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#47. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

Hanya Yanagihara

#48. A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Steve Harvey

#49. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something.

Todd Stocker

#51. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#52. A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

Penelope Trunk

#53. It is better to be a failed happy person than to be a successful underachiever.

Laksh Kishore

#54. We need to know ourselves better so that we can realize what we really want in our life. I think that the first condition for a person to be in a successful relationship is to be happy with the person he or she is, in other words to love themselves.

Tarkan

#55. I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Kristen Stewart

#56. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas A. Edison

#57. If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

Earl Nightingale

#58. Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.

Rajneesh

#59. You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

Konosuke Matsushita

#60. The point is this: the successful person in any field takes time out to confer with himself or herself. Leaders use solitude to put the pieces of a problem together, to work out solutions, to plan, and, in one phrase, to do their superthinking.

David J. Schwartz

#61. I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

James L. Brooks

#62. Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

Craig Venter

#63. Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

#64. Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Robert Kiyosaki

#65. The more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.

Darrel Ray

#66. Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them ... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Sean Covey

#67. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done

Mike Krzyzewski

#68. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Mark Twain

#69. I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.

Ivanka Trump

#70. Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Rob Lowe

#71. You have to have a product or service that offers customers a unique advantage over the competition. Some people think it has to be price, but only one person can have the lowest price, and the person with the lowest price isn't necessarily the most successful.

Cameron Johnson

#72. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

Michael Bassey Johnson

#73. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Magic Johnson

#74. It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

James Sinegal

#75. If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

Monique Coleman

#76. If you are a "now-person", you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a "now-person" and do it now!

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Mario Batali

#78. If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#79. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Francis Collins

#80. Persistent work always brings a person successful results

Sunday Adelaja

#81. I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

Colin Greenwood

#82. A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Mark Nepo

#83. Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

Derek Sivers

#84. When you are discussing a successful coach," sports psychologist Bruce Ogilvie once said, not of Ramsay but of the entire profession, "you are not necessarily drawing the profile of an entirely healthy person.

David Halberstam

#85. Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person

Diyar Harraz

#86. Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Eldridge Cleaver

#87. Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#88. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#89. There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

Mallory Ortberg

#90. I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Scott Turow

#91. The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

Alexander Lowen

#92. The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

S. Truett Cathy

#93. You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Erica Albright

#94. When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Ross Mathews

#95. It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...

Vedang Sati

#96. A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to

Sunday Adelaja

#97. If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Melinda Gates

#98. A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

Jay Samit

#99. The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.

Maxwell Maltz

#100. In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.

R. Keith Sawyer