We believe that success can mean different things to different people – not everyone wants the same thing, what drives happiness and fulfillment for one person doesn’t necessarily predict what will for another. That said – if we simply think of success as being effective at achieving one’s goal – whatever those goals might be – then we can set a sort of common

JeanCarlo Ramirez

To me success means many things, not only being great at what you do but also being a good person, not being selfish, helping others, having freedom to enjoy your life, being healthy and investing your profits in things that will generate more revenue (there are others I can add to this list but that’s just what I can think of at the moment) Read more>>

Nick + Leanne Polidore

Adaptability/Transparency. Everything we do we view as an experiment. From our designs, social media to how you can order from us. We try our hardest to allow customers to tell us what it working and what isn’t. It’s important to be able to drop an idea that isn’t succeeding. For a small business like ours we leverage what makes us different than a larger company and that is how quickly we can make changes and implement them. For example. Read more>>

Marla Albertie

Success is a mindset. For example, if you set a goal to go to the gym twice a week and you did, then you are successful. I know you may ask, well Marla, what about if the person only went once? In my eyes they are still a success, because even the slightest movement is still progress ad that is a success. I think too often, people compare success to having a lot of money or even celebrities and that is not always the case. Read more>>

LaShieka Ferrell

The answer to this question is simple. Consistency and the ability to adapt. I opened makeup business in 2018. I was only focused on doing makeup. I didn’t have any products on my shelves, and I was not thinking about opening a online boutique. I was focused on growing my clientele. Then Covid hit and my business stopped. I still had a job at a hotel but business was slow. So, I began to think. Read more>>

Yesenia Martin

It takes a lot of sacrifice to be successful and maintain the success. You have to believe it before seeing it. Hard work, long nights, early mornings. You gotta be so locked in with yourself you gotta be ready to risk it all for your vision. Patience and consistency. Faith and prayer. Read more>>

Kendeja Ealy

I think it takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and consistency to be successful. Whether it’s in your personal life, career, or relationship, success will not be easy. There are a lot of people that give up and I feel like if you don’t put in the work and determination, you will never be successful. Read more>>

Neeka Robinson Reedus

It takes hard work and dedication. You have to love what your doing. Stay consistent as well as committed to the goals you set for yourself and your business to be successful. Read more>>

Caroline Lizarraga

For me I think you have to be your heart and soul into what you do. Because my job is my passion, it is easy for me pour my everything in. Take risks, be open to ideas, work hard and be ready for when your moment strikes. I think also balance and happiness is so important. you have to take care of yourself as well. This all reflects in your business. Read more>>

Kayla Hardin

I believe that it takes consistency and discipline to be successful in anything that you do. Even if you find yourself not being as disciplined in some things, just simply being consistent will almost always develop you into becoming disciplined. Being dedicated and setting goals is a key component as well. It’s easier to reach things when you know which direction to aim for! Read more>>

Laderne Jeudy

I believe it takes Discipline to be succesful. Discipline is vital component to success. Discipline helps to create realistic plans with a focus mindset to achieve the goal. Read more>>

Igor Benchak

Before my business partner Alex and I started our company, we both already had thriving projects. I was involved in the restaurant industry and commercial photography, while Alex operated a successful escape room company. One day we met when I was helping him with one of the escape room locations. That day we had a really long and a really fun talk about businesses. Later we realised that we lacked enthusiasm with our current projects despite its immense success. Read more>>

Domenico Cicirello

To be successful to me isn’t a diploma or a high paying job. I feel like society has made it the “norm” that in order to be successful you have to go to college or drive a crazy sports car. I felt pressured at a young age that I had to go to college because that’s what everyone else was doing. Truly what it takes to be successful is hustle and motivation. Waking up everyday and wanting to grow and become a better person is what makes you successful. Read more>>

Paul Michael

Being successful running a small business takes a lot of effort, energy and dedication. Before I started this journey for myself, I didn’t realize just how much time and work would be needed to be put in. Although the hours can be long, the paperwork never ends and there is always more to learn on the business side of operations, the benefits of owning a business and working for yourself are definitely worth the extra effort. Read more>>

Divya Khemani

Nothing can stop you from becoming a successful content creator if there is a passion behind me . we can manufacture passion just by asking ourselves a simple question .what do i like to do ? Other than that it takes Persistence , Consistency and lot of Patience to grow as a successful content creator . Read more>>

Minique Rice

I think the most important ingredient to business success is belief. You have to truly believe in what you are creating and know that it has value. To get to this peak of belief you’ll have to fully understand the problem or need that is not being met and know for certain that it would undoubtedly be solved by the what you are offering. This will naturally build that belief. The belief will then create confidence and the confidence will fuel the drive that will take you places. Believe… and you’ll go far! Read more>>

Keo Cook

Success is associated with accomplishment. You are successful if you can accomplish what you have always desired. Success is defined as having a goal, making a plan to reach it, and then finally achieving it. Making my own goals and achieving them is what defines success for me. Read more>>

Margaret Coel

It seems that sometimes success is a matter of luck. Being in the right place at the right time. You happen to know someone who knows someone who knows someone–you know how it goes. But I agree with Oscar Wilde who said: The harder I work, the luckier I get. What about working hard? Does that mean keeping your nose to the grindstone, working, working, working and waiting for success to knock down the door? Read more>>

Nyya Anderson

To be successful in a field that some may view as oversaturated, you have to have a strong will to be resilient and to think outside of the box. You have to have the determination to remain relevant and learn different ways to advance in your field. Which means to never stop learning how to be better. You are sort of like a career student. Read more>>

Rachel Lee

I think it takes failure to become successful. There’s a lot of trial and error in any industry, but the ones who succeed are those who learned from their mistakes and persevered. Read more>>

Newzad Brifki

I believe that it takes discipline to become successful. The number one person to motivate you everyday is you. All you have to do is be consistent in reaching your goals. From experience my problem in the beginning was I always listened to others opinions. Which is good, if it’s good feedback. However most of the time people, especially your close ones (family) will drive you away from your passion or success. Read more>>

Latasha Martin

To be successful you have to use your failures as stepping stones . Success surely comes with blood sweat and tears. I truly I think a successful person is the one that stood the test of time. The one who experienced the most failures but didn’t give up. Read more>>

Marissa Garcia

In order to be successful both in your personal life and your career, you have to make sure that you set goals for what you want to pursue and accomplish as well as being prepared for what obstacles that you will have to face along that path to success, and most of all, be willing to take on challenges and uncover that adventurous side in you. Cause with my career as a filmmaker, it’s like going on adventures, and during those adventures Read more>>

Kyla Nicole

What I think it takes to be successful is sacrifice, discipline and extreme faith that is borderline delusion (lol). These two things have taken me extremely far. Let me explain. I know that for the level of success I’m going after, I have to be disciplined. The first year I was in business, I felt like I disappeared for a long time, and missed out on so much because I was so focused. I missed so many trips, Read more>>

Larrissa Spears

Success, I think is relative to an individual. It can be measured on a broad spectrum. A minor accomplishment to one may be a major accomplishment to another. Too many times “You deserve it.” has. been used as a way to complement an achievement. But this statement personally puts me off. As harsh as it may sound, no one deserves anything. To be successful in anything it takes hard work and dedication. It takes being open to growth. Success doesn’t happen overnight and it isn’t just given. It takes time. you have to trust the process. Read more>>

Cindy Bonema

To become successful, I think it’s important to experience failure. I’ve realized a couple years ago, as I was 6 years in of starting my business. Failing is something a lot of us are afraid to experience, and we avoid taking risk because of the thought of failing. However in the entrepreneurial space if you want to grow and become successful, you have to be willing to take risk, sometimes it may be a win but you will also experience some losses. Read more>>

Taniah Scott

I believe what it takes to be successful is that you have to be consistent and confident in all that you do. You have to be committed to whatever you’re trying to achieve. Most importantly, you have to be patient and trust the process. Read more>>

Nate Watters

I work as a commercial and editorial photographer, a field where it’s pretty standard for people to find a niche or a specialty subject, stick to it, and get hired strictly for their style and knowledge around that one subject. This works really well for a lot of people, and I admire so many of my friends and colleagues for their unique styles and abilities to make stunning editorial portraits or highly polished commercial lifestyle work, for example. Read more>>

Alex Carneiro

What is success? How do you define it? From person to person everyone has a different and yet similar idea of it. For many, successful people make a lot of money, west expensive clothes and have nice cars. But what about happiness and health? Those are on the bottom of many’s list. So what does it take to be successful? Well first one must have a definition for their own meaning of success and create steps to reach them. Read more>>

Zoe Fishman

I guess the most important part of this answer has to do with how I define success. On my bad days, and there are lots of them, I’m not successful. I’ve never hit The New York Times bestseller list; I’ve never had an internationally funded book tour; I’ve yet to land a movie deal and walk a red carpet. I still live paycheck to paycheck for the most part, six books later. Read more>>

Ashley Cleveland

I do believe the keys to success are determination and consistency! It takes a strong willed person with a passion for what they’re doing to be successful. There will be times were goals are being met and times were it may take a little longer to obtain a successful moment in life. Staying consistent and being determined goes hand and hand, never stop working and stay determined to reach your goals or next level of success. Only you can control your destiny! Read more>>

Liz Maldonado

Consistency and showing up for yourself everyday! My best advice is just start and don’t look back, keep going! Read more>>

Kir Tuben

I think ‘success’ is a tricky term. So many people equate money and finances to success but at the end of the day, success lies in happiness. You could be a very rich but ultimately miserable. I think the best way to attain success is to really define what you think happiness looks like. Work life balance is essential. Once you create a vision, then devise a step by step plan to really attain that vision. Success might be cooking 4 nights a week, having a date night or even finding time for a hobby. Planning is the key to building a life you love. Read more>>

Madison Smith

As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”. This is true when it comes to my definition of success and how to get there. I am the owner of Sweet M Photography- my own photography business based in Southern California where I specialize in family portraits and weddings. Everyday I contemplate how I can be more successful at my job, Read more>>

Erica A Thomas

There are many paths to success, but a common thread for successful people is that they believe in themselves. You cannot expect others to believe in you, your product, your mission, or your business if you don’t believe in it. However, there is bound to be rejection along the way and you can’t allow that rejection to redirect you off the path. You have to stay the course and get back on the horse so to speak. Read more>>

Sonya Muhammad

To be successful, You must work hard to remove the words of limitations put on you by other people! You won’t always have confidence in what you are doing but keeping going. Striving to make, give or be the very best you can and stay humble, success will come. Read more>>

Gabby & Eric Trujillo

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to be successful. It’s not an easy task nor is it easy for anyone to achieve. You have to struggle first to see success. We as a team have struggled before actually reaching success; but it doesn’t mean you won’t come across days where you’re not successful. It’s overcoming those days that makes you successful. To be successful you have to do right by your business, right by you, and by your team. Read more>>

Brooklyn Robinson

If you want to be successful you have to have confidence within yourself and your business. Nobody can brand your brand better than you don’t rely on other people to make your business successful such as celebrities and influencers. Nobody can promote and put in the time and effort more than you because your business/ brand should be something that you put every second into with love and dedication. Read more>>

Mimi Are

To be successful, it takes strive, dedication, consistency, determination, focus and most importantly it takes you being in a stable mental place. A lot can come with determination, dedication and sorts but if your mind is not still/out of focus it will be so hard to be successful. There will be constant struggle between success and inner self. My advice will be to get your mind ready, I know it sounds easier said than done but if your mind can agree with your dreams and ambitions, then you are already at least 25% ahead of the game. Read more>>

Tina Young-Holman

Drive and determination to succeed against all odds. Right mindset to achieve what you’re going after in your business and life. Know that nothing impossible if trust God and right steps down so you know where you going on your life journey.Know you might stumble but keep your eyes on the prize. Learn about what you’re trying to achieve and put in place things to achieve it. Read more>>

Shin Lim

Success is such a subjective word as it means something different to each person that you ask. For me, being successful is being able to create a work life balance so that I can continue doing what I love for a living and being able to spend quality time with my family and friends. The photography industry is so saturated and there is a lot of competition out there. Read more>>

Bill Bradley

A TON of confidence , tunnel vision mindset , fall down 7 times get back up 8. I think success is different for each person, someones success can easily be someones failure. This is where tunnel vision plays part. Knowing that you’re on the right lane and eventually , (it might take some time ) but you’re going to succeed and win at the end. Your’e also going to need a ton of confidence in yourself , skills , ability and most importantly decision making. ADD a drop of undeniable relentlessness and poof – success Read more>>

Keeley Edens

There are many attributes that successful people possess, but I think the most common – the most consistent – is Patience. It’s not new information, but success does not happen overnight, nor does it happen linearly, so having the patience to see it through to the end, is extremely important. In my experience, I’ve overcame some of the hardest speed bumps (funding falling through, co founder leaving the business, and ghosting investors) just by being patient! It gives time for the heightened emotions to settle and allows for more rational, more productive decision making. Read more>>

Edward McGovern

Having a two-decade career in Law Enforcement, I had the benefit of learning so much about leadership. Without a doubt, leadership is the number 1 quality needed for success, especially for a new startup building from the ground up. Leaders provide direction to guide the mission and team. Without leadership, the gears grind to a halt. The hardest part of being a solid leader isn’t taking control, it’s giving control to the team. Read more>>