How To Be Successful In Life

1. Find what you love to do and do it

1.1. From Oprah Winfrey, Media Mogul: “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.”

2. Think big

2.1. From Michelangelo Buonarroti, Great Renaissance Artist: “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

3. Learn how to balance life

3.1. From Phil Knight, CEO of Nike Inc.: “There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”

4. Do not be afraid of failure

4.1. From Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motors: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

5. Be a man of action

5.1. From Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance Genius: “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

6. Avoid conflicts

6.1. From Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of America: “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

7. Always maintain a positive mental attitude

7.1. From Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of America: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

8. Be willing to work hard

8.1. From JC Penny, Founder of JC Penney Inc.: “Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.”

9. Be brave enough to follow your intuition

9.1. From Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc.: “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

10. Read

10.1. From Jose Fernando Castilla Martinez, student of the INSEBEHE: "Reading is an activity I frequently quote, but the knowledge and skills that books bring are not paid for with money. Taking a good book and starting to read it requires no effort."