Vidal Sassoon

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

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

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

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.

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

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. We realized that being successful isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being inspired. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.

When you’re successful, things have a momentum and you can’t tell if you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

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

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

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”.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.