How to achieve success

What do you think, which features are essential for people who want to achieve success (I guess that everybody wants to do it)? Maybe in your opinion these quiet, reliable ones deserve for it? Or these ambitious and determined who aim their goal at all costs and do everything to succeed?
It depends on our personality, for example I think that it's well when sb's quiet and works efficiently without boasting; but if you want to be the best, you should show what you can, shouldn't you?
I'm waiting for your opinions.

There is boasting and then there is boasting. In order to achieve success (and we are talking here about success at work, correct?) you have to sell yourself. You have to let the employer know what your unique skills and talents are. Talking how good you are at something and what you have achieved up to now is not necessarily boasting. It all depends on how you present yourself and how you come across as a person.

To be successful in anything, not just at work, you have to have confidence in yourself and your abilities and you have to believe you can do anything. Persistence is the key. And hard work of course.

It is also very important to set goals for yourself. You have to know what it is exactly what you want, i.e. you have to define "success" for yourself. Is it being rich? Or is it doing what you enjoy to do? Or maybe both? Or maybe something entirely different. It doesn't matter what it is as long as you know what it is. Once you know what your goals are you make a plan to achieve your dreams. In other words you have to figure out how to get to where you want to be. Step by step. Nothing will happen overnight.

>I'm waiting for your opinions.

Some Jonathan Winter couldn't wait for success ..so he went ahead without it :-] Read on.


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Author Unknown

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. ~Booker T. Washington

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~Logan Smith

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. ~B.C. Forbes

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. ~Author Unknown

This is very interesting, Freddie:)
It seems that success isn't pleasant issue, but ocean of hard work, where is only a drop of satisfaction;)
Once I read the maxim: "The more you know, the more you want to know".
I think that it is connencted with methods "for achieving success".
And it relates to well-known, Polish tag "Apetyt rośnie w miarę jedzenia" ;)

NICE, VERY NICE I AGREE WITH ALMOST EACH OF THESE SENTENCES, AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD ONE MORE:

--------- THE BEST WAY TO SUCCEED IS TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER ---------

AVERAGE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF CHANGES, WHICH IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFES, JUST CAUSE, YOU CANNOT AVOID CHANGES PERMANENTLY, YOU SHOULD GET USE TO IT !! :)
(I RECOMMEND - "KTO ZABRAŁ MÓJ SER?" JOHNSON)

Should that not be - 'Who moved my cheese?'
'Success is achieving a stress-free, peaceful, enjoyable life and still being young enough to enjoy it.'

I'll chime in: (these are some quotes of people who actually suceed)
'Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.' Bruce Lee
„I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying” Michael Jordan

„I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

„I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. „

„My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.„ all of them - Michael Jordan

I'm a great believer in luck, and
I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson

"The biggest mistake you can make is to be afraid of making a mistake" unknown