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Success Quotes

64 quotes on success and achievement — from the classics to the everyday.

“I just want to win. That's it. I want to win.”

Jalen Brunson · NBA media availability, 2023

“Money is just a tool. The real asset is the team that knows how to use it.”

Ashneer Grover · Doglapan, 2023

“You don't build a unicorn by being polite. You build it by being right.”

Ashneer Grover · Shark Tank India, Season 1

“Entrepreneurship is not about having a great idea. It is about executing that idea better than everyone else.”

Ashneer Grover · Shark Tank India, Season 1

“In India, the first thing you have to do is survive. Growth comes after survival.”

Ashneer Grover · Shark Tank India, Season 1

“Capital follows conviction. If you are not convinced about your own idea, no investor ever will be.”

Ashneer Grover · Doglapan, 2023

“You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards.”

Howard Skinner · widely attributed

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics (paraphrased by Will Durant)

“I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Michael Jordan · Nike advertisement, 1997

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

“Well done is better than well said.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

Mark Twain

“Luck is not a business model.”

Anthony Bourdain

“The Way of the Pirate, as far as cooking goes, consists of a willingness to work hard, a willingness to put up with discomfort, and a certain recklessness.”

Anthony Bourdain · Kitchen Confidential, 2000