Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Successful people breed success.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

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

I always have a drive to take me forward offensively, regardless of what position I am playing.

I'm a kind of go-getter.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

I am very motivated, I always want to play.

I left Brazil with the mentality of wanting to win in life.

I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.

I'm extremely competitive, extremely ambitious, and always looking for ways to improve and move up, to do things better.

I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.