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“Start each day badly and you wave success goodbye. How you start anything plays a key part in how successful you will be. This is true for how you begin each day. Everyone knows the adage about ‘getting out of bed on the wrong side’ – it may not be literally true but metaphorically it is 100-per-cent correct.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘Once you stop learning, you start dying.’ I first heard this maxim by Albert Einstein in my twenties. At the time I thought it was nonsense. How wrong I was. Learning and success are totally interlinked. Do not make the mistake of thinking that learning ends when you complete your final exams.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You do not need to be a millionaire to feel successful or be successful. Financial wealth is only one of many possible indicators of success. However, to achieve your dreams and life goals you’re going to need money. And making it requires financial planning and goalsetting. I do not know of any successful person who has been able to simply ignore their finances.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The secret to your success lies in surrounding yourself with sustainable love, and that starts with loving yourself. This is your hardest challenge. Through hundreds of hours spent coaching I have observed a common pattern – we can easily express our love for other people, possessions or experiences but find it difficult to say we love ourselves.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been invited back to speak at my old high school, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, which once upon a time expelled me for absolutely outrageous behavior (sic). The moral of the story is: success trumps everything!”
Milo Yiannopoulos (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milo Yiannopoulos invited to talk in Canterbury at his old school BBC News (November 16, 2016)
“Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.”
Theresa May (born 1956) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theresa May Says UK Will Make Success Of Brexit When She Is PM, Sky News - Youtube (11 July 2016).
“I'm very clear also that the British people don't want the issue of Article 50 being triggered just being kicked into the long grass because they want to know we're getting on with the job of putting Brexit into place and making a success of it.”
Theresa May (born 1956) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit may bring difficult times, says Theresa May BBC News (4 September 2016).
“Had President Kennedy not pledged the nation to bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, and oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty?”
William Westmoreland (1914–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To one extent or another, the volume of new cases coming in is a reflection of a great success in expanding testing across the country.”
Mike Pence (born 1959) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Claimed about the coronavirus. Fact Checking Mike Pence on the Coronavirus Pandemic (June 26 2020)
“First, a new civilian constitution should be drafted through a democratic process involving the input of all segments of society and that is on par with international legal and humanitarian norms, and drawing lessons from the success of long-term democracies in the West.”
Fethullah Gülen (1941–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well – not just a few – and integrating among them.”
Michael Porter (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38
“It is neither capital nor labor but management that brings success, since management will attract capital, and capital can employ labor.”
Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38
“The key to success for Sony, and to everything in Business, Science, and Technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. We bet the company on that basic technology (the Trinitron TV), and in 23 years nobody has been able to match it.”
Masaru Ibuka (1908–1997) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Masaru Ibuka in: B. Schlender. "China Really is on the Move," Fortune, February 24, 1992. p. 23.
“When it rains, you put up an umbrella. That is the secret of success in business and management.”
Matsushita Konosuke (1894–1989) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kōnosuke Matsushita. Not for Bread Alone: A Business Ethos, a Management Ethic, 1984. p. 111
“Japan has a lot of engineers who work at desks. When it comes to implementation, though, they lose confidence and haven't got the courage of their convictions when other people criticize them. Engineers like that can't build cars. Success in this industry demands engineers who have the courage and the decisiveness to implement ideas.”
Kiichiro Toyoda (1894–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kiichiro Toyoda in the 1940s, cited in: Satoshi Hino (2005). Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth. p. 93
“If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.”
Gary Hamel (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In general, success tends to breed slack. One of the main consequences of slack is a muting of problems of resource scarcity. Slack provides a source of funds for innovations that would not be approved in the case of scarcity but that have strong subgroup support.”
Richard Cyert (1921–1998) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 189; cited in: Pitelis, C. "A Note on Cyert and March (1963) and Penrose (1959): A Case for Synergy," at www.jbs.cam.ac.uk, 2006.
“Christian success served as a model for... seventh century... Islam.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A breakdown of management into its basic functions — development, production and marketing — revealed that the character of the functions, their chronological sequence, the closeness with which they had to be integrated and their relative importance to the success and survival of the business, all depended upon the system of techniques in the firm concerned.”
Joan Woodward (1916–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The key definitions for the entrepreneur seem to centre around the concept of responsibility. Responsibility implies individualism. It is not tolerable unless it embraces both credit for success' and blame for failures, and leaves the individual. free to claim or accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”
Francis X. Sutton (born 1917) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Aslan Mordecai. Work and Family life. PhD Thesis Brunel University, December 1976.
“Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.”
Jerry I. Porras (born 1938) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson. Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters, Wharton School Publishing, 2006. p. 3-4
“Six Sigma is a comprehensive and flexible system for achieving, sustaining and maximizing business success. Six Sigma is uniquely driven by close understanding and customer needs, disciplined use of facts, data, and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to managing, improving, and reinventing business process.”
Peter S. Pande (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Processes are where the Action is: Whether focused on designing products and services, measuring performance, improving efficiency and customer satisfaction or even running the business, Six Sigma positions the process as the key vehicle of success.”
Peter S. Pande (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To conduct of government business... [is similar to the] conduct of the affairs of any other social organization, commercial, philanthropic, religious, or educational, in all of which good management is recognized as an element essential to success.”
Leonard D. White (1891–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success ruins everything.Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Christina T. Fong. "The business school ‘business’: Some lessons from the US experience." Journal of management studies 41.8 (2004): 1501-1520.”
Gerald R. Salancik (1943–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“WE have placed our psychotechnical interest at the service of economic tasks... The purpose before us was to find for every economic occupation the best-fitted personality, both in the interest of economic success and in the interest of personal development.”
Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Culture is the personality of an organization. Therefore, culture governs much of how people think, act, interact, with others, and do their work. It is extremely powerful in determining the present and continuing success and the future direction of any organization Culture can literally determine whether a company has a future.”
Don Soderquist (1934–2016) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Soderquist “The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 27.
“You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream.”
Anna Sui (born 1964) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: via MBFashionWeek.com. IMG Worldwide. 2015.
“I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.”
“Trump owes his success in part to the fact that he ran for president in an environment that favored change over the status quo. But his luck or genius goes beyond that. It has long been noted that the conditions have existed for an independent candidate to run a serious campaign for president.”
“If you wear your pants below your butt, don't bend the brim of your cap, and have an EBT card, 0% chance you will ever be a success in life.”
Ben Shapiro (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unique descriptions of scene play a significant role in the success of fiction, and any first-rate novelists knows enough to keep changing the scenes in which his characters carry out action, since that no only conceals the novelist's shortcomings, but also heightens the reader's enthuisiasm in the reading process”
“Voting for politicians who tell you what you want to hear has all but destroyed civilization, giving in to outrage in the hope of avoiding trouble has all but destroyed freedom, and looking for the easy road to success in bodybuilding has all but destroyed the actually great potential value of weight training.”
Arthur Jones (inventor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... the phenomenon of serial entrepreneurship would seem to call into question our tendency to explain success as the product of chance.”
Peter Thiel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern history was born in the nineteenth century, conceived and developed as an instrument of European nationalism. As a tool of nationalist ideology, the history of Europe's nations was a great success, but it has turned our understanding of the past into a toxic waste dump, filled with the poison of ethnic nationalism, and the poison has seeped deep into popular consciousness.”
Patrick J. Geary (born 1948) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (2003), Princeton University Press, p. 15.
“The fact is that over time the greatest enemy of Socialism is reality.The reality that human nature will invariably pull certain people toward individualism and success and others toward laziness and collectivism.”
Steven Crowder (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Content is king. Planned Parenthood's success lies in their operating in total darkness. Their friends in media and government have protected them. But soon there will be an army of Lila Rose's who will shine light on unthinkable abuses behind closed doors, which will shock the consciences of most Americans.”
James O'Keefe (born 1984) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Changing the World by the Time He's 30", National Catholic Register (March 31, 2010)
“We toured in a Lear jet and that's the only way to fly, baby! Success is a bubble, though, and we knew the wonderful time we were having couldn't possibly last.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the success of the Mamas & the Papas, The National (January 5, 2011)
“Most significant of all was the success of Robespierre and the central Montagnard leadership to turn the revered memory of their fallen comrade to a potent weapon in the Jacobin triumph over the Gironde, who thereafter could convincingly be portrayed as destabilizers or fomenters of civil war for their role in the assassination of a great patriot.”
Clifford D. Conner (born 1941) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clifford D. Conner (1998), Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary, p. 260;
“What I have achieved has been largely a matter of chance. Many problems I thought about at length with no success. With other problems, there was the inspiration—indeed, some that astound me today. Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and of pretense, and indifferent to the world.”
Robert Langlands (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Big risks bring big success!”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Churchill, dated 25/2/1912, quoted in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 107.
“The 3 Requisites for Success - Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3 R's)”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Also The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 73.
“If today I get back with you, our conservative grandmothers will say to other women rebelling against gender injustices, Look, even a rebel like Jainab has also surrendered. I don't believe that only married life can be the ultimate success for women.”
Begum Rokeya (1880–1932) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Padmarag (1924)
“I feel that I have been fortunate to have found success, and I also want the young writers to have what I did not have when I was starting out my writing career … Writing doesn’t exist in a vacuum; we talk about politics, everything.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The numbers make it clear that the future of [Apple] is no longer in its consumer products. The fix? Apple should release a version of iOS for non-Apple devices. This suggestion will seem like heresy to the brand's loyalists, but it may be necessary for the success of the company. ... Without expanding its operating system, the future looks bleak for Apple.”
Vivek Wadhwa (born 1950) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Apple needs to liberate iOS in VentureBeat (27 July 2016)
“Remarkably, the building of the Standard Model — the theory of how particles and forces interact — was the success of the conservatives. It required no revolution at the foundational level. Normal physics, the kind that goes on experiment after experiment, produced the Standard Model.”
David Gross (born 1941) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Waiting for the Revolution", an interview of David Gross by Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine (2013)
“Our Vienna maternity ward, where inexpensive insurance covered everything, was a reminder of the success of the European project. It exemplified services that were taken for granted in much of Europe, unattainable in the United States. The same might be said of the quick and reliable subway that brought me to the hospital...”
Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I make sure that they photograph everything they do. And they have to have a portfolio to graduate. You know, there’s no formula for success out there, but what works is: learn how [to photograph], photograph everything you do and you put those photographs in front of people that can help hire you. That works.”
Tom Savini (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Social Democracy must remain for itself, must seek for and generate its power within itself. Every power outside of ourselves on which we seek to lean is for us only weakness. In the consciousness of our strength, in our faith in the world-conquering mission of socialism lies the secret of our extraordinary, almost miraculous success.”
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source