Noah Hawley Quotes

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

If you want to get anywhere in life, you have to make choices.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

If I can't find anything good, I am just going to have to get my butt in gear and start learning how to do everything.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.

The best we can do is prioritize our needs and make choices accordingly.