There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Similar Colin Powell quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Be bold to begin.
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.
- The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works.
- The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
- (It is not good to) weigh too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
- Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.
- Do something in your life which will make millions of people attend your funeral. Have a worthy life.
- If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?
- A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.
- It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
- The simplest way to learn business is to study your competition and improve what they are offering.
- When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
- To leverage means to create a win-win situation.
- The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
- Big things start small.