Successful People Quotes - Page 12

• It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

  Michael Gove

  Successful, People, Criticism

  "Michael Gove: Rupert Murdoch is an 'impressive and significant figure'" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

  Michael Eisner

  Mean, Successful, Odds

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• You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, Goal

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.13, Jaico Publishing House

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• Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.

  Cal Thomas

  Heart, Successful, Self

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• People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Successful, People, Excited

  "Old Spice pitchman on breakout role in Tyler Perry picture". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 22, 2011.

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• The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Successful, Doors, Differences

  "Former Cover Model Ashley Zarlin Gets Cheeky With Us". Interview with Clara Lemon, localemagazine.com. July 4, 2015.

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• The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Successful, People, Balance

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• The key quality all successful people share is the ability to inspire, to transfer our passion to other people and to bring them along with us in pursuit of our vision. I have to be able to inspire investors, actors and crews on a daily basis. What I recognize in other successful people is a similar ability to make their passion infectious.

  Amma Asante

  Passion, Successful, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

  Tom Rath

  Successful, Practice, Skills

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• The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

  Seth Godin

  Creativity, Successful, People

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• Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

  Chalene Johnson

  Successful, Average, People

  Chalene Johnson (2012). “Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.13, Rodale

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• You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, Care

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals”, p.58, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Successful, People

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions to Help You See It and Seize It”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, People, Willing

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.177, Harper Collins

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• The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Determination, Successful, Differences

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Successful, People

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• Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspiring, Successful, People

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• Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Simple, Thinking

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.100, Penguin

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• Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Successful, People

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• Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

  Orrin Woodward

  Life, Commitment, Successful

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• Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

  Jon Gordon

  Commitment, Successful, People

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• Successful people are willing to do what makes them uncomfortable in the interest of growth.

  Bob Proctor

  Successful, People, Growth

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• The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Pride, Successful, People

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• Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

  T. Harv Eker

  Successful, Differences, People

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• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

  Jack Canfield

  Successful, People, Focus

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