Achiever Quote by William E. Simon

Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place…

— George Gilder

Achievers are the ones who fail but they get right back up and keep trying again until they achieve whatever they desire to achieve.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others…

— William Hazlitt

“When rewards ignore individual performance, the incentive to strive for excellence is lost.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,…

— Barry Schwartz

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

— Jules Renard

I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way…

— Anonymous

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

— Lord Acton

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more success stories.

— Bill de Blasio

No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.

— Fatima Jinnah