Vaibhav Shah

Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.

Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

It’s next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

A lot of people don’t like to win. They actually don’t know how to win, and they don’t like to win because down deep inside they don’t want to win.

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.