“All successful men have agreed in one thing—they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.”

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”

Sometimes you have to look back to go forward, learning from others' experiences and soaking up their infinite knowledge as you go. Luckily, the decades before us gave rise to some of the brightest minds in history-and judging from all their accomplishments, they definitely knew a thing or two about success.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.

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