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My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.
Sep 10, 2025
How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.
Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.
Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.
If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I would say that all successful people are "fighters." They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
Successful people in real estate are nicest people you can know.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.
There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.
Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.
The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy sustained success understand the fact that you have to remain very committed to whatever it is you're doing, especially in this instant-gratification culture.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.
It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.
The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.
If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.
Everything you can imagine is real.
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!