Successful People Quotes

Welcome to a curated collection of inspiring quotes from successful individuals across various fields. Success is a journey, and the wisdom shared by those who have achieved remarkable accomplishments can serve as a beacon of motivation and guidance for anyone striving to reach their own goals. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, artist, athlete, or simply someone seeking inspiration, these quotes are here to ignite your passion, drive, and determination. In the pages below, you’ll find a treasure trove of thought-provoking and empowering quotes from successful people that you can use as a source of motivation, share on social media, or incorporate into your creative projects. Discover the wisdom of the accomplished and embark on your own path to success.

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As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world’s most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses. Clay Clark

The people I coach are very successful people, so it’s very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it’s trivial and not worth it, we still want to win – because we love winning. It’s a very deep habit. Marshall Goldsmith

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter. Tyler, The Creator

When we did ‘The Office,’ no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don’t have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn’t concern me. Stephen Merchant

That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner. Douglas Wood

Successful people are simply those with successful habits. Brian Tracy

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it – and I planned on being successful. Phil Hellmuth

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was ‘too crazy to work.’ Troy Carter

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. John Paul DeJoria

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with? Michael Gerber

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down. Jay-Z

Everybody on my team – I couldn’t do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you’re successful is you hire really successful people. Carol Bartz

On television, it’s all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right. Rachel Joyce

If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try? Scott Adams

I always tell young people: When you meet someone successful, ask them as many questions as you can. Because there’s nothing more successful people love – nothing more – than talking about their successes, and you can learn a lot in that. Maverick Carter

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. Edwin Louis Cole

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it. Sir Mix-a-Lot

I worked with Salman even when he was not doing so well, so now that he is successful, people think I have an agenda. Sajid Nadiadwala

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel. Raymond Arroyo

At City, we don’t just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount. David Silva

The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school. Stephanie Ruhle

When you’re around enormously successful people you realise their success isn’t an accident – it’s about work. Ryan Tedder

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. Kiana Tom

Remember, I’m someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I’m afraid that’s exactly what I love doing. Jeffrey Katzenberg

Successful people often enjoy telling their story. Lewis Howes

Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me. Jake Paul

When you’re successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire. Boy George

Contrary to what you might assume, I didn’t start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty. Kenneth Langone

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won’t do. They go where others won’t go because there’s a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success. Dan Pena

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. Dan Millman

The most successful people are so original. Idina Menzel

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them. Robert Greene

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they’re successful, people get bored. Jim Lovell

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won’t be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps. Scott Adams

One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks. Marshall Goldsmith

It’s almost as if the most successful people don’t put too much effort into being so brilliant at what they do, that they’re just doing extraordinary things. The truth, however, is they’re putting more and more effort into maintaining their levels of excellence. Ron Mael

That’s a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, ‘Don’t go changing.’ Well, that’s easy to say, but the fact is, you don’t change at all – other people do. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. Jay-Z

The most successful people in comedy do seem to be the most funny. Alex Horne

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don’t just love what they do, they’re obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way. Drew Houston

We’re all self-made, but only successful people admit it. Dan Pena

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me – for being so confounded normal. Deborah Kerr

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success. Brendon Burchard

It’s not people who resent successful people; it’s resentful people who resent successful people. Bo Bennett

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It’s just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means. Michael Eisner

It’s often the case that successful people invite criticism. Michael Gove

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That’s where my heart lies. Karin Fossum

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day. Billy Connolly

Successful people often exude confidence – it’s obvious that they believe in themselves and what they’re doing. It isn’t their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first. Travis Bradberry

Nobody’s perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes. Travis Bradberry

It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. Carrot Top

Successful people breed success. Phil Crosby

The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. Michael Korda

I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. Ben Stein

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. Jack Canfield

The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours! Dan Pena

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ Brian Tracy

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it. Carrie Underwood

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful. Wyclef Jean

I don’t have the answer to finding the balance because I think, well, maybe successful people don’t switch off. Katie Piper

Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy. Jaggi Vasudev

Truly successful people don’t rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger. Amy Morin

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives. Kay Redfield Jamison

I have gotten disturbed at… some of the Democrats’ anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it’s very counter-productive. Jamie Dimon

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that’s why there’s not a lot of super duper successful people, because it’s guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don’t work as hard. Rico Love

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Don Marquis

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built. Guy Laliberte

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad. Tom Lehman

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it! Cat Cora

I’ve found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do. John Rampton

The most successful people I’ve worked with, like the Rolling Stones – people of a different, kind of legendary caliber – have such great, warm energy. Christina Aguilera

I love America – I’m not saying that I love Americans. I don’t know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don’t know – in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, ‘Hey, well done.’ People are jealous and negative in England. Andy Rourke

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem. Jorge Bucay

I’m not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success. Carine Roitfeld

The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things. Carol S. Dweck

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people. Anne Sweeney

When you’re not successful, people look at the driver and say, ‘what’s wrong with him?’ and sometimes the drivers look back and wonder ‘what makes you think you’re not the problem?’ Michael Waltrip

It’s always great to know successful people like Canelo, especially those that make our country proud. Carlos Vela

A lot of times when people become successful, people don’t really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester. Clinton Sparks

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. Rick Pitino

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard Baruch

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility. Michael Korda

The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners – they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public’s attention to important work in economics. Eric Maskin

I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them. Brendon Burchard

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well. Ben Stein

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They’re losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations. Brendon Burchard

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error. Ryan Holiday

Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality. Travis Bradberry

I’m quite comfortable being the husband of a woman who’s a big celebrity. And of course a superstar’s brother. It’s not an enviable place to occupy but it’s the reality. I’m very closely related to two very successful people and I accept that happily. Arbaaz Khan

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Tony Robbins

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. Ben Stein

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton

People really love ‘Madea’ movies and get a kick out of them. They’re phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one’s coming out. Isaiah Mustafa

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that’s something that can be developed. It can be self-taught. Fred L. Turner

The most successful people do play extensions of themselves in the ring. Summer Rae

When you are happy, successful people want to be around you. Rudy Ruettiger

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I’ve worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are. Mia Wasikowska

One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, ‘I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must be achieving results because I behave this way.’ This belief is sometimes true, but not across the board. Marshall Goldsmith

When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do other things, but we could never end up doing them, so casting directors were just like, ‘Enough of them! Don’t touch the ‘Glee’ kids, because you can’t use them!’ Kevin McHale