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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
Businessman · British
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
Ernest Renan
Philosopher · French · 1823 – 1892
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
Ernest Istook
Politician · American · b. 1950
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
Edgar Watson Howe
Editor · American · 1853 – 1937
We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.
Robert Menendez
Politician · American · b. 1954
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy
Author · American
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis
Psychologist · British · 1859 – 1939
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho
Novelist · Brazilian · b. 1947
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill
Writer · American · 1883 – 1970
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
James S. Coleman
Sociologist · American · b. 1926
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Barry Goldwater
Politician · American · 1909 – 1998
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
Author · American · 1817 – 1862
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Keith Henson
Scientist · American
I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.
Robert Barany
Scientist · Austrian · 1876 – 1936
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
Rem Koolhaas
Architect · Dutch · b. 1944
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
Robert Falcon Scott
Explorer · British · 1868 – 1912
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet
Dramatist · French · 1910 – 1986
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Politician · American · b. 1943
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napolean Hill
Author · American · 1883 – 1970
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Michael Porter
Educator · American
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Bo Bennett
Businessman · American · b. 1972
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Theologian · English · 1828 – 1889
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher · German · 1788 – 1860
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
Businessman · American · 1835 – 1919
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins
Author · American · b. 1936
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Lillian Hellman
Dramatist · American · 1907 – 1984
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Richard Stallman
Scientist · b. 1953
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
Journalist · American · b. 1951
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
Public Servant · English · 1823 – 1871
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis
Author · British · 1898 – 1963
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Educator · American · 1866 – 1936
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut · American · b. 1930
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
Amy Tan
Novelist · American · b. 1952
The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Ernest Thompson Seton
Leader · American · 1860 – 1946
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
Joseph Barbera
Cartoonist · American · 1911 – 2006
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
Author · British
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Dramatist · American · 1911 – 1983
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant
Public Servant · Dutch
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Poet · American · 1830 – 1886
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
Seamus Heaney
Poet · Irish · b. 1939
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
Donald Johanson
Scientist · American · b. 1943
The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
Lee R. Raymond
Businessman · American · b. 1938