Quotes about success

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Tony Robbins

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Albert Camus

Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.

Eric Ries

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment – and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Sheryl Sandberg

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

Nikola Tesla

I’m often asked how I define “success.” It’s an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things – achievement and appreciation. One isn’t enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

Tim Ferriss

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Adam Smith

The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it’s asset allocation.

Tony Robbins