David Schwartz Quotations

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.

When everybody is euphoric it's usually a sign that the market is about to run out of steam.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

NBC was at Sunset and Vine. ABC was across the street on Vine. Mutual was also on Vine. CBS' Columbia Square was on Sunset. It was a very busy place.

For two decades, the name of the author, Duncan Hines, was etched on the biting edge of the American appetite. the best known and most purposeful vagabond.

If it moved while we were walking, it wouldn't surprise me.

He introduced a deadly weapon into a fistfight.

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

It comes from the trenches we put across the faults to look at the time of past earthquakes. It comes from satellite-based measurements ... that tell us how fast the plates are moving.

Our goal was to protect the Toys R Us brand while continuing to provide a positive shopping experience for our online customers. This ruling allows us to do that.

Over time, aggression is a marker of every negative outcome that there is.

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

I think the technology has allowed us to do a much better job of defining where the hazards are, where the strong shaking may be, where the bad ground is.

This whole field of looking at active faults and using what happened in the past as a guide to what may happen in the future, he was involved in early stages of that.

The probability of a large and damaging earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area in the next 30 years is 70 percent, and that has an uncertainty of plus or minus 10 percent.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier - certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.

A tremendous job was done after the 1906 earthquake in making the observations of everything that really occurred. We are still using that report today as a fundamental source of material about what earthquakes do, and how to respond.

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the virtual reality we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems beforethey arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must bewilling to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait foreverbefore taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

Authorize.Net did not suffer from any sort of security breach whatsoever. If someone commits fraud in a physical store using a stolen credit card, the merchant would never hold the manufacturer of the card-swipe terminal accountable for that fraud. In the e-commerce world, a payment gateway is the equivalent.

The mistake that was made in the '70s and early '80s was that they took the ideas from the Vegas strip and jammed them down Atlantic City's throat. It's been successful, but to get to the next level, to real excellence, you need casinos that take more advantage of the boardwalk and the beach and the marina.

This is one of these things where, yes, something may have occurred before this one earthquake, but we don't see that kind of signal everywhere before big earthquakes.

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, ''I'll win,'' not ''I'll probably lose.'' When you compete with someone else, think, ''I'm equal to the best,'' not ''I'm out-classed.'' When opportunity appears, think ''I can do it,'' never ''I can't. Let the master thought ''I-will-succeed'' dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

The young man who was killed, the way he was shot, might lead one to believe the victim was turning away versus facing (Schuster), as (Schuster) claimed.

There was a smell of rotting food and supplies that overwhelmed you when you got out of the car. That can't be healthy. I'm sure it's not healthy.

As we look across the region, we have earthquake activity distributed throughout the entire bay area. There's really no escape.

It's just another one of these places that opened up kind of small and never quite had the money to expand big time.

It seems to mark these kids for later victimization. And that only made them more submissive.

It seems to be designed as an attack on civil unions.

It was fun to watch it the first time with your jaw open, because audiences were just astonished at what they were watching. But it's even more fun to look back on it now.

It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.

It's big. They'll bet for the same reason people who don't even like football tune into the game: It's a big spectacle.

How can I be a man of success?

You can visualize what would happen if it moves 6 feet.

These hackers got their hands on high quality data, and they used merchants of ours to run that data through the merchant's Web site, which goes through our platform.

The hazard is real and the hazard is high. The one thing we have to do is strengthen the built environment.