Success

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Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

International Herald Tribune (1961)
The truly successful businessman is essentially a dissenter, a rebel who is seldom if ever satisfied with the status quo.

How to Be Rich (1965)
To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
I think making a name for yourself is a wrong objective...I would prefer to look for ways where you can make maximum contribution, and thatepends on two things: clearly what your skills are and, less clearly, what the activities that you truly enjoy are. By choosing occupations that you can get excited about you are likely to do your best work.

Interview, WebChat Broadcasting System (1996)
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

Body and Soul (1991)
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