Famous Quotes & Sayings

Og Mandino

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

Og Mandino

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Og Mandino

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

Norman Tebbit

We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

Norman Mailer

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

Norman Ralph Augustine

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

Norman Lear

Success is how you collect your minutes.

Norman Lear

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

Oscar de la Renta

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Orson Welles

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

Oriana Fallaci

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

Orison Swett Marden

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

Orison Swett Marden

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Orison Swett Marden

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Orison Swett Marden

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Orison Swett Marden

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Orison Swett Marden

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Orison Swett Marden

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Orison Swett Marden

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Michael Buble

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Michael Caine

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Merton Miller

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Masashi Kishimoto

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

Mason Cooley

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.