success

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."

"If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich."

"The best revenge is massive success."

"I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now."

"The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits."

"The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best."

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

"Patience is a virtue not a vice."

"No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?"

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

"Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want."

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"The roughest roads often lead to the top."

"Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present."

"If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God."

"The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering."