Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Cash Penney

Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.

James Cash Penney

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

Napoleon Hill

Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

Napoleon Hill

We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

Napoleon Hill

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

Napoleon Hill

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Napoleon Hill

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Napoleon Hill

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Napoleon Hill

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Napoleon Hill

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Napoleon Hill

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Napoleon Hill

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Og Mandino

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

Og Mandino

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

Og Mandino

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Og Mandino

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

Norman Tebbit

We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

Norman Ralph Augustine

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

Norman Lear

Success is how you collect your minutes.

Norman Lear

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

Oscar de la Renta

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Orson Welles

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

Oriana Fallaci

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.