Successful People Quotes - Page 16

• I hope that when girls see my clothes, my shoes, or my outrageous jewelry collection, they feel the thrill of wanting more for themselves too. I love what my friend Andre Leon Talley said: "If you are successful, people want to see it. They want to share in your dream".

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Girl, Dream, Successful

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

  Joan Jett

  Successful, Ideas, Long

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Successful, People, Sick

  Thomas J. Stanley (2005). “Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen”, p.243, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Destiny, People

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.

  Rob Paulsen

  Stupid, Successful, People

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• The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Successful, Rich Life

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017

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• The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

  Carly Fiorina

  Successful, Thinking, Differences

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• Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Successful, People

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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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• Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.

  Robin Sharma

  Successful, People, Ordinary

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.6, Jaico Publishing House

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• We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Successful, People, Goal

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money". www.wired.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

  Michael Lewis

  Successful, People, Luck

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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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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• I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

  Jamie Dimon

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

  Aisha Tyler

  Successful, People, Scared

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

  Robin Sharma

  Jealous, Successful, People

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 06, 2013

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• Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

  Earl Nightingale

  Adversity, Successful, Maturity

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• Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

  Charles Wheelan

  Successful, People, Interesting

  Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

  Fred L. Turner

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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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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• The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.

  George Pelecanos

  Taken, Successful, Winning

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, Men, Self

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Kings, Successful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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