The Common Denominator of Success
The key to success lies in forming the habit of doing what failures don't like to do, backed by a strong purpose and practical, emotional goals.
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The Common Denominator of Success
There’s a lot of career and life advice about setting goals. Goals are fine, even necessary, and measurable targets can be important management tools in business. (Research suggests that the simple act of writing down your goals24 can have a profound effect on outcomes.) But your desire to reach a goal is not going to get you there.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
The second group of successful people are those who are goal-oriented. These people have not found a particular river, necessarily, and can be quite happy doing a number of things. It's the goals they set that are important to them,
Earl Nightingale • How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds
Drucker offers a helpful definition: “What are you good at that consistently produces desired results?”
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Every single qualification for success is acquired through habit. People form habits and habits form futures. If you do not deliberately form good habits, then unconsciously you will form bad ones.