Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.