If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.
Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.
Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.
One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.
When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
You need to know how to put a mission together to victory!
To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob
Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.
The secret is to success sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.
There are many people in athletics who only know losing. Their team never wins they only know losing and therefore nobody on their team really understands - they're all trying to win, but it's a select few who know how. And Donald Trump is one. He does know how to win.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
I am a more rounded person than you see on television. You don't bark your way to being a success.
That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.
If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.