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Maximizing one of life’s variables (such as net worth) usually comes at the direct expense of others (such as free time). More money is better only if the tradeoffs it requires don’t undermine other dimensions of your desired point of arrival. Even the wealthiest among us agree that at some level, money has diminishing marginal returns. But since money is a common scorecard, it can … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Money, Success / Failure

What distinguishes the men and women who succeed from those who fail is the efficacy of their actions, not the spaciousness of their hopes. If they believe their lives are out of alignment with their capabilities, goals, and needs, they make choices and take actions to correct the situation.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

Every life is shaped to some extent by circumstances: a lucky break or a fortunate decision…Things happen to us that drive our destinies in unforeseen ways. More fundamentally, we are all dealt a hand of cards– ranging from our genes to the family and neighborhood we grew up in-which shapes how we adapt to these circumstances.

Personal alignment is how well we play that hand … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Luck, Success / Failure

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Content: Quotation | Source: ThinkArete.com | Subjects: Attitude, Success / Failure

Whom the gods want to destroy, they send 30 years of success. In the midst of your success, the seeds of failure are sown, and the signals are often very subtle.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Success / Failure

The man who does not make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Mistakes, Success / Failure

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

Content: Quotation | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Observations, Success / Failure

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Education, Success / Failure

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

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Success / Failure

Asked by a member of the audience for his definition of success, Ricardo Levy said, “I’d rather use the word fulfillment. Success is a metric; you never have enough. But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals are the only judges.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Success / Failure

My experience…taught me the three critical drivers of professional success, the three elemental particles of love in business. They are knowledge, networks, and compassion. To be an impact player in business, you simply have to know more than most other people know. That means taking the power of ideas seriously, reading books voraciously, and developing a system of organizing what you’ve learned. But all of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

Leaders pay a lot of lip service to the notion of rewarding failure, but few organizations hold failed effort on the same level with success. Often, they have a forgive-and-forget policy. Forgiveness is crucial, but it’s not enough. In order to learn from mistakes, it’s even more important to forgive and remember. The only kind of failure that deserves to be punished is inaction. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, Success / Failure

Show me a hero and I’ll tell you a tragedy.

Content: Quotation | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life, Success / Failure

People can’t do what they can’t imagine.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Action, Success / Failure

Success represents the 1 percent of your work which results only from the 99 percent that is called failure.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Success / Failure

Success is finding, or making, that position which enables you to contribute to the world the very greatest services of which you are capable, through the diligent, preserving, resolute cultivation of all the faculties God has endowed you with, and doing it all with cheerfulness, scorning to allow difficulties or defeats to drive you to pessimism or despair. Success consists of being and doing, not … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Success / Failure

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Success / Failure, Work

You will always succeed in life if you will always think and act in terms of the other person’s self-interest.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure