To measure success with material things is failure!
We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.
I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.
I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.
That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.
Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.
It is simply service that measures success.
If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.
We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'
Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.
You always measure success by what you did last. It's hard to measure that because it's something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can't make a hit that you know is a hit every day.
