The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People Quotes

“When we spend time worrying about things that could go wrong, we’re not spending time trying to improve. Which means that worrying about things going wrong increases the chances that they will go wrong.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“How can you go on, knowing that you have so much further to go? Persistent people arm themselves with the knowledge that what they want can be done. They focus not on the distance they must go to get what they want, but on the belief that what they want is possible, that they can do it.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

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― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“Successful people spend at least fifteen minutes every day thinking about what they are doing and can do to improve their lives. Sigmund 1999”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“In national surveys comparing income with lifestyles and satisfaction (among people who have what’s necessary to live on), salary increases have no effect on life satisfaction and little influence on work habits. Eisenberger, Rhoades, and Cameron 1999”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“What success means is not universal. Studies of people who have attained nearly identical achievements in the workplace, for example, find great variation in their level of satisfaction, with some considering themselves tremendously successful and others considering themselves average or even failures. Maasen and Landsheer 2000”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“The quantity of hours spent working or thinking about work, or hours spent with our families, does not predict achievement or life satisfaction. Instead, the quality of those hours—how stressful or relaxing they are—is a much more potent factor in producing a satisfying family life and career. Brown 1999”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“Lower self-worth translates into 37 percent less willingness to negotiate and use of 11 percent fewer negotiation strategies. Increased self-worth correlates with greater willingness to incur the risks of prolonged negotiation and greater adaptability. In short, the less confidence you have in yourself, the faster you will give up trying to get what you want. Greno-Malsch 1998”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“People who regularly keep a journal, or some kind of written record pertaining to their aspirations, are 32 percent more likely to feel like they are making progress in their lives. Howatt 1999”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“creativity comes not in exchange for money or rewards but when we focus our attention on something because we want to.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“People who lack confidence not only fear doing things they are not good at, they actually start to fear performing tasks in which they excel because they question whether they’re all that good at anything.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“Most of the things you really want are not going to come to you overnight, this week, or next month. Most of what is truly important to you will take years, sometimes a lot longer.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“Use what you really care about to make yourself passionate about how things turn out.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“People who care do a better job in everything they do. Why do people care? What inspires them? The answer is almost anything you can imagine.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“No one can do the same job, requiring the same tasks, with perpetual interest and enthusiasm.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“The Past Is Not the Future”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice

“Competence Starts with Feeling Competent”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It – A Thousand Studies Reveal Traits, Beliefs, and Advice