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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
Sep 10, 2025
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.
...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.
You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.
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.
Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.
I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.
Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
My formula for success is just a lot of hard work. It's believing in yourself. It's a pride that I gotta get better at something every time I wake up.
There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, "Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works."
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Success ... seems to be connected with action.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.