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The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Content: Quotation | Author: Charles Kettering | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development, Success / Failure, Wisdom

“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure

Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development, Success / Failure

The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.

Content: Quotation | Author: Geoffrey Colvin | Subjects: Achievement, Management, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Preference with a passion—intense commitment to what they do—is one of the single most dramatic differences between peak performers and their less productive colleagues […] many told me they can trace their performance more clearly to preference than to aptitude, more to how they feel about what they are doing than what they know.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Attitude, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Our lives are made for success—and not just for enjoying it, but for seeking it as well. As a matter of fact, the people who are most likely to enjoy success are those who most enjoy seeking it. Those people are able to find satisfaction in the journey, not just at the end of the road.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Morris | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Life, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

You have to focus on success, especially unexpected success, and run with it. Most problems cannot be solved—most problems can only be survived. And one survives problems by making them irrelevant because of success. This is a matter, above all, of placing people. What I have learned to do is to take a sheet and list our opportunities and the risks. And then I make … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Opportunity, Problems / Solutions, Success / Failure

Psychologist Richard Farson observed that, although people profess to learn from their mistakes, their behavior is shaped by their successes. This is why change is hard for people. Confronted with failure, or with a new world where the old tricks aren’t working any more, most people keep doing what they have been doing, only harder.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Experience, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

Everybody should be extraordinary to succeed, but nobody should have to be extraordinary to have the opportunity to succeed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Opportunity, Success / Failure

An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college, he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he’s out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails, maybe a thousand times. If he succeeds once, he’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Charles Kettering | Subjects: Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Success / Failure

By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Attitude, Success / Failure

To be successful, you have to put your time in and be centered and humbled enough to observe other people. Stravinsky used to say observation is the key responsibility for creative people. He thought it was important to watch the forces of nature… I think all the answers to our questions are out there in the universe if we just can slow down enough to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Attention, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Content: Quotation | Author: Kenneth Boulding | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Learning, Success / Failure

In defining greatness, I think it’s important to differentiate between inputs and outputs. People sometimes confuse the two. There are a lot of important inputs, but greatness is in the outputs. So what are the outputs? I would say there are three. The first is truly superior performance in the arena in which you operate. In sports, your team has to win championships, or … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Collins | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Management, Success / Failure

Our knowledge of what does not work is often greater than our knowledge of what does work. In addition, as a forecast reaches farther into the future, it is easier to predict what won’t survive than to predict what will survive. And when it comes to perishable things (like people), the young can be expected to outlive the old. But with nonperishables (like ideas), the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David K. Hurst, Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Success / Failure

In 2009 Steven Kaplan, Mark Klebanov, and Morten Sorenson completed a study called “Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?” They relied on detailed personality assessments of 316 CEOs and measured their companies’ performances. There is no one personality style that leads to corporate or any other kind of success. But they found that the traits that correlated most powerfully with success were attention to detail, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Brooks | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Success / Failure