In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Well begun is half done.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I think that success is having fun.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

There is no substitute for victory.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Success is not a stop sign.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I am results-oriented.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

What one has to do usually can be done.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.