“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919) American businessman
Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), "April 13"
Earlier variant: People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. And those who have learned to have a realistic, nonegotistical belief in themselves, who possess a deep and sound self-confidence, are assets to mankind, too, for they transmit their dynamic quality to those lacking it.
You Can If You Think You Can (1987), p. 84
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Gaur Gopal Das (1973) Indian spiritual leader, lifestyle coach and motivational speaker
[Positive attitude key to success, says Gaur Gopal Das, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/positive-attitude-key-to-success-says-gaur-gopal-das/articleshow/62501124.cms, Times of India, 15 January 2018]
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
As quoted in The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7 (17 February 1934)
Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) New Zealand writer
Said at Keswick, as quoted in The Education Outlook (1926) Vol. 78
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 8.
“The secret of my success is longevity.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) Philosopher
In Herbert F. Vetter, " Not The Average Philosopher http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/hartshorne.html", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. On his selection to the Library of Living Philosophers.