Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.
After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.
You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.
A lot of people love to throw the social climber thing at people who are on the rise, but it's really just God moving all the people that are distractions, all the obstacles, out of the way for me to achieve what I'm destined to achieve.