Success Quotes

"I've had great success being a total idiot."

- Jerry Lewis

"The Lord gave us two ends: One to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."

- Ann Landers

"Everything I have I owe to this job ... this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job."

- Jim Halpert

"So this is my life — until I win the lottery."

- Jim Halpert

"You can't have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage worth ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

- Charlotte Whitton

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life."

- Jim Collins

"What drives your economic engine?"

- James C. Collins

"Good to great comes about by a cumulative process—step by step, action by action, decision by decision, turn by turn of the flywheel—that adds up to sustained and spectacular results."

- James C. Collins

"To make the shift from a company with sustained great results to an enduring great company of iconic stature, apply the central concept from Built to Last: Discover your core values and purpose beyond just making money."

- James C. Collins

"The good-to-great companies made a habit of putting their best people on their best opportunities, not their biggest problems. The comparison companies had a penchant for doing just the opposite, failing to grasp the fact that managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great."

- James C. Collins

"People like consistency. Whether it’s a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for."

- Mickey Drexler

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway."

- Nick Gleason

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."

- Amelia Earhart

"If you make a sale, you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller

"I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars – I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

- Warren Buffett

"If you’re passionate about something, and you work hard, then I think you will be successful."

- Pierre Omidyar

"You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."

- Michael Dell

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations."

- Tim O’Reilly

"The reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Every step you take in the coming year may lead you to new heights of success. Happy Birthday!"

"May the candles on your cake illuminate a path of joy and success. Happy birthday!"

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."

"Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis."

"There is always room at the top."

"Dream. Work. Succeed."