Quotes

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.

I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their personality. But I think we change enough over the years that it's like a succession of different people.

Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

From the day I arrived, I could see City's project was destined to be a success and the club would grow - but I didn't think it would be quite so fast.

I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

When a Brazilian player comes to England and is successful, he ends up opening doors to other players.

I don't like to brag about it, but there are people I've worked with at the start of their career, and they've all become very, very successful.