Robert Collier

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.

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

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

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

My life is a success – I am a happy man.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.

Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!