Niki Lauda Quotes

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

No center would be great without the right people around him.

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?

Don't just put it off and think about it!

When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

Donald Trump probably spends more time getting more things done than many people have any experience with, but yet he's the one undisciplined, he's the one that's haphazard, he's the one who's erratic, he's the one who's unpredictable.

I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement

One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.