Pete Zafra

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.

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

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

I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.

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

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

The recipe of success is to study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing.

People who are fools don’t get successful, and they don’t get to be successful if they are worried about their popularity.

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”.

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

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.

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

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

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