Michael Josephson Goal Quotations

There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.