“Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.”
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Motivated Quotes — page 34 of 381
“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”
“I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'”
“The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.”
“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”
“Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.”
“They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.”
“The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.”
“It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.”
“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.”
“If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there”
“We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.”
“Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.”
“You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.”
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”
“When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight------Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.”