
“Very successful people are absurdly selective.”
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Twitter
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.”
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Twitter
“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside”
“How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”
Warren Bennis (1999) Managing People Is Like Herding Cats. p. 89
1990s
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”
Source: The Other Side of Midnight
“Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.”