“Very successful people are absurdly selective.”
Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Variant: The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
“Very successful people are absurdly selective.”
Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American leadership expert
Warren Bennis (1999) Managing People Is Like Herding Cats. p. 89
1990s
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”
Sidney Sheldon book The Other Side of Midnight
Source: The Other Side of Midnight
“Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.”
Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker