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What are the top 15 virtues and/or factors of success, based on your own experience?

I read "how-to-be-successful" self-help books and there are varied suggestions as there are different authors and approaches. I would like to know from yahoo answers members what particular traits/characteristics they developed or those of people they personally know, whose principles they have actually witnessed, really worked toward their success or that made them reach their goals.

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1. 1. Hard-work 2. Perseverance/resilience 3. Know your stuff (don't try to bluff your way through life.) 4. Honesty (employers/public like honesty in people, from my experience anyway) 5. You need to keep going no matter how hard life gets 6. If you have children, make the rights decisions based on them, don't neglect them. 7. Be pleasant, even if you don't like the person you are being pleasant to, it may come back to you some day. 8. Find your feet in whatever profession you find yourself in before you make serious and radical business moves/propositions. 9. Find money to make sure you have the money to make money in the first place. The saying; "you've gotta spend money to make money" applies here. 10. Make sure you have an emergency fund, if you lose it all, you have somewhere to fall back, just don't spend it! 11. Make sure if you are going to be rude, you can back it up, and if you are going to strike down opposition, make sure you don't fall short so that they can strike you while you're down. 12. Make sure you keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. 13. Make sure you have capable friends to back you up. 14. Make sure you choose the right business path. 15. Make sure you will like the job you choose, think hard about it, and consider your options.
2. 1] honesty to yourself and others 2]spirit 3]integrity 4]follow-up 5]trust in others 6]self esteem 7]being willing to take a risk 8]energetic 9]perseverance through hard times 10]having wisdom 11]having faith in yourself or idea 12]humility,to know when your wrong 13]good work ethic 14]team player 15]knowing when to ask for help
3. 1. God fearing 2.Honesty 3. Being yourself 4. Not ignoring people regardless of their class 5.Believing in yourself 6.Appreciating other people's ideas 7.Respect yourself and other people 8. Don't make decisions in anger 9.Be willing to take risks 10. Never give up no matter what. 11.Do what makes you happy 12. Don't allow all people to know your personal life 13. Be ready always to admit when you have done a mistake 14. Don't allow small challenges to pull you down 15. Learn to let go
4. 1 - 15 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart" Psalms 37:4 Faith in God, and faith in yourself and others will follow. This scripture has changed my life, my career, my marriage, and my parenting, all for the better. Believe and it will happen.