Achieving First Success Gifts

"The first one was the hardest."

Butterfly Woman

Large Dollar Sign Office Block

Or as I prefer to call it, the 'feel-good' factor.

Nothing Succeeds Like Confidence.

'We're finding out that those 'wrongs' we made 'right' were actually right after all.'

He was destined for greatness. Whatever that meant.

'Wow! I never thought it would actually WORK!'

Bullseye!

Boom

'My team likes to see me spring into action.'

"And finally, I’d like to thank all those people I stepped on and used to get here. I couldn’t have done it without your submissive insecurity and relentless resignation."

The rope to success.

Business is off the chart.

Win - win

'Well, Frobisher, it's taken a millennium, but thanks to our initial public stock offering, we've finally turned lead into gold.'

"I didn't really start applying myself seriously until around the eighth life."

Tenacity trumps everything!

We Made a Fortune! 'That's good enough for me. I don't really need the specifics...'

Jumping Man

Mountain Tops Incorporated

"Oh, I can't complain"

'I became successful when my dreams changed from the Cary Grants of the world to federal grants.'

"At the end of the day Simon, money talks!"

'Remember me, Fred? I sat next to you in class and you said I'd never amount to anything.'

"I spent hundreds of dollars on a course for entrepreneurs then found out the fire in my belly was acid reflux."

'I had a great year and I wasn't even trying.'

"The secret is to ask yourself: what would someone who's successful do?"

"We have a goal wrapped in a plan, and served on a bed of success."

"Oh, just great, Dick. How are things going with you?"

'hard work and more hard work got me where I am today...Not my hard work of course.'

Others' perceptions (which aren't always true)

'Miss Henshaw - bring me my trumpet.'

"I know by outward standard I'm successful, but a voice inside my head keeps saying, 'Where's your private plane?"

'If you want to be a great success, get yourself huge wads of money.'