It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
If you create great content, huzzah. But if it doesn't move anywhere, you're not succeeding.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. " This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once. "
When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.
It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar,. . . NCIS.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who write with fury and fire about the world, and in new ways, without having them say things like "I read a really good Indian book," or "That Malaysian fellow writes very well. " So I hope by identifying as Indian I can get people who don't usually read "ethnic" or "Indian" literature to read that literature and enjoy it.
Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.
When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
The development andor revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.