“The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.” EndsMillionsSuccessfulTenPercentInvestorsProbabilityCoinsConsecutiveTossers Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
“There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.” PersonsSuccessLinesLevelsSuccessfulDoubtPercentCommitmentNegativeTasksAriseWinnerPerformingRecognizingNegative ThoughtsSuccessful Person Author:Nicole Haislett
“Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.” SuccessfulPercent Author:Alec Baldwin
“If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.” IfsWellsPersonsSelfChanceSuccessfulOne ThingPercentOkayBeing SuccessfulSelf DestructTalented Person Author:Ethan Hawke
“...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.” IfsThinkingSuccessWinningAttitudeSuccessfulPlansFailingPercentPreparationConcrete Author:Peter James
“Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.” PeopleMadeSometimesFilmSuccessfulPercentPercentages Author:George Lucas
“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.” ThinkingWorldEndsGamesChristSuccessfulFailingOne ThingCouplePicksPercentLet DownBad Games Author:Mark Teixeira
“In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.” ShowsOrderSuccessfulPercentBeing Successful Author:Woody Allen
“I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.” SuccessfulPercentStuckSpotsFillingCrosswordsTime To KillFilling In Author:Carolyn Hax
“Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50 states, that makes his -up to that point - incredibly successful. The idea of winning 49 states, incredible.” IdeasStatesWinningCareersSuccessfulPercentVoteElectionIncredibles Author:Frank Luntz
“There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.” PeopleHateDifferencesCommonSuccessfulOne ThingPercentFolksSuccessful People Author:Darren Hardy
“Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.” IfsYearsShowsFilmActorsSuccessfulTvsPercentProfessionChosenTv ShowsThings You Love Author:Christina Ricci