1. "You become what you believe.

You are where you are today in your life ba sed on everything you have believed." --Oprah Winfrey, net worth of $2.7 billion First and foremost, you have to believe that greatness is possible. Many of the world's billionaires have shifted the way our world wor s, because they believe d that they were capable of doing something that was previously impossible. Chan ge is possible. Greatness is possible. But you can't do anything unless you firs t believe in yourself. 2. "What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our me mbers' success, our community's success." --Pierre Omidyar, net worth of $6.7 bi llion Your success is directly tied to how much you do for others. It's not what you now. It's not who you now. It's what you do for who you now. Success fol lows generosity. 1. "You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life ba sed on everything you have believed." --Oprah Winfrey, net worth of $2.7 billion First and foremost, you have to believe that greatness is possible. Many of the world's billionaires have shifted the way our world wor s, because they believe d that they were capable of doing something that was previously impossible. Chan ge is possible. Greatness is possible. But you can't... more 2. "What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our me mbers' success, our community's success." --Pierre Omidyar, net worth of $6.7 bi llion Your success is directly tied to how much you do for others. It's not what you now. It's not who you now. It's what you do for who you now. Success fol lows generosity. 3. "The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously thin about the adventure of living a s a matter of ma ing choices among options, which they have found for themselves , ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully." --Karl Albrecht, net worth of $25.4 billion Everything you do (or choose not to do) is a choice. Most of us thin that life happens to us, but in reality life is something that we choose either by actively pursuing options and creating our own circumstance s, or by bloc ing opportunities and limiting our beliefs of what is possible. Yo u can choose the type of life you want to live. 4. "I thin that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of li fe and we have to grow at all times." --Mu esh Ambani, net worth of $22.3 billio n Success is not an event--it's a process. Billionaires embody that process bett er than most of us. They are on a constant quest to improve, enhance, and outper form themselves. It's a constant, internal drive to become a better person. 5. "Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has a chieved." --Michael Bloomberg, net worth of $22 billion Billionaires have grit a nd perseverance. Top performers wor hard at hard things. And that means that su ccessful people do the things that most people don't want to do, and that's why they get the job done. 6. "If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all." --Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, net worth of $18 billion Developing a world-class s ill means that you have the capability to ignore everything else. You have to be able to focus on doing an incredible job or on ignoring it comple tely. Greatness doesn't come from simply "putting the time in" ... you have to p ut the time in with effort, energy, and resolve. 7. "It's through curiosity and loo ing at opportunities in new ways that we' ve always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to ma e a diffe rence." --Michael Dell, net worth of $15.9 billion Ta e a loo at any mar et-lea ding company. Are they compromising on their product in one way or another? That 's an opportunity for disruption, growth, and change. Any unmet need, any annoyi ng problem, any half-ba ed solution offers a chance to change things. 8. "The role of business is to produce goods and services that ma e people's lives better." --Charles Koch, net worth of $25 billion If your only goal is to become rich, then you're going to have trouble meeting your goal. However, if y

our focus is on ma ing people's lives better, then you'll find that success come s much more quic ly. 9. "No person will ma e a great business who wants to do it all himself or g et all the credit." --Andrew Carnegie, net worth of $298.3 billion (in 2007 doll ars) Success unshared is failure. Our connections with other people are what giv e our wor meaning. The things we do will only matter if they are shared with ot hers. 10. "The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that y ou have and truly be o ay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factor s." --Tony Hsieh, net worth of $840 million So often, we push happiness out on t he horizon of life. "Once I get this job, I'll be happy." Or, "If only I landed that promotion, then everything would be good." Of course, life doesn't wor tha t way, and there is always another goal once we reach our previous idea of happi ness. Money is important, but your life should never be built around it. Happine ss comes before success, not after it.