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FEATURE
BY DAMILOLA OMOTUNDE
SUCCESS TIPS TO TAKE INTO 2018
E
veryone desires to be successful. Though each person’s definition of success is
different, one thing we all have in common is that we all want to achieve suc-
cess. However, achieving any kind of success does not come easy. There are
lots of tips and strategies out there on how to be successful, but I strongly believe
that there is no better way to succeed than to follow the footsteps of those who
have achieved success.
Here are a few success tips from some of the world’s most successful and
renowned people:
2. Find what you love to do
and do it.
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.”
3. Learn how to balance life.
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.
From Henry Ford, Founder of Ford
Motors: “Failure is simply the oppor-
tunity to begin again, this time more
intelligently.”
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1. Think big.
According to Michelangelo Buonarroti, Great Renaissance Artist: “The
greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and fall-
ing short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
5. Have an unwavering resolution to succeed.
From Colonel Sanders, Founder of KFC: “I made a resolve then that I was
going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of
labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that
there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.”
6. Be a man of action.
From Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance
Genius: “It had long since come to my
attention that people of accomplish-
ment rarely sat back and let things
happen to them. They went out and
happened to things.”
7. Avoid conflicts.
From Theodore Roosevelt, 26th
President of America: “The most impor-
tant single ingredient in the formula of
success is knowing how to get along
with people.”
8. Don’t be afraid of introduc-
ing new ideas.
From Mark Twain, Famed Author: “A
person with a new idea is a crank until
the idea succeeds.”
9. Believe in your capacity to
succeed.
From Walter Disney, Founder of Walt
Disney Company: “If you can dream
it, you can do it.”
10. Always maintain a positive
mental attitude.
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.”
11. Don’t let discour-
agement stop you from
pressing on.
From Abraham Lincoln, 16th
President of America: “Let no
feeling of discouragement
prey upon you, and in the end,
you are sure to succeed.”
12. Be willing to work hard.
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.”
13. Be brave enough to follow
your intuition.
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 second-
ary.”
