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" Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. "

W. Clement Stone

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" My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens. "

" Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. "

Henry Kissinger

" What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. "

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" You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish. "

Michael E. Gerber

" Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. "

George S. Patton

" Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. "

" The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day. "

" Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. "

W. Clement Stone

" Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. "

" I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night. "

" Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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" Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort. "

Charles J. Givens

" Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. "

Lillian Hellman

" With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. "

Juliana Hatfield

" Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. "

Barbara Walters

" Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. "

" Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality. "

" Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. "

" The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day. "

" The starting point of all achievement is desire. "

" Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. "

" I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. "

" Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up! "

" The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives. "

Michael N. Castle

" Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "