Orison Swett Marden Quotes

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

Demoralization is something I know a great deal about, all my life I have got something for nothing. That is entirely due to luck and I think a great many members opposite are in the same position. We have all got something for nothing. The question is: are we demoralized? I am not demoralized.

I've always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

I'll keep battling to realize my dreams.