Success Defined
"Success is something that
always comes faster to the man your wife almost married."
"The secret of success in life, and subsequently of making
money, is to enjoy your work. If you do, nothing is hard work - no matter
how many hours you put in." - Sir Billy Butlin
"Success is 99% failure." - Soichiro
Honda
"Success is a journey, not a destination." -
Ben Sweetland
Three Guiding Principles
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without
losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Success depends on both
what you do and how
you do it.
Being creatures of pattern and habit, we
unknowingly achieve success and construct our
failures.
Taken together, the three
NLP guiding principles - (i) failure is not an accident; (ii)
feedback
is the foundation of success; and (iii) success has a structure - can help
you change old habits of thinking and your success hit rate. Once you have
taken these three guiding principles on board, you will have at hand a
valuable source of information - an effective prescription for exactly the
progress you desire. "These three principles make it possible to turn what
we used to think of as setbacks into success, get the feedback we need in
order to know what to do next, and figure out the key factors we need to get
right if we are to succeed".1
Building Relationships
Successful people have the ability to
develop relationships that last.
Theodore Roosevelt said, "The most important single ingredient in the
formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."...More
How To Succeed in Business
"Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and
a son-of-a-bitch."
- Peter McArthur
99 percent of businesses started by people lacking business experience fail
within the first two or three years. However, 80 percent of businesses started
by experienced businesspeople succeed. Why should this be so? The reason is
because experienced businesspeople know what to do. They know how to purchase
their products and their services. They know
how to negotiate with their suppliers. They know how to raise money. They
know how to negotiate leases. They know
how to
sell and to market. They know how to manage their finances. In other words,
experience is the key. In order to start your own business and succeed, you have
to learn how... More
"No success in public life can compensate for failure in
the home." -
Benjamin Disraeli
"All
you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and than the success is sure." -
Mark Twain
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -
Woody Allen
"Underpromise; overdeliver." -
Tom Peters
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