Pete Zafra

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

I don’t think people get to be successful without ambition.

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

To succeed in life, you need to things: ignorance and confidence.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who do nothing and succeed.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.