2251 | John Addison: "One of The Greatest Enemies of Success is Success.”
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Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
John Addison delivers a no-nonsense reminder that success isn’t luck — it’s earned daily. Drawing from 35 years of leadership experience, he warns against complacency, overconfidence, and “mismanaged success.” With humor, southern charm, and hard-won wisdom, Addison shows why winning starts in your head, must be renewed every day, and depends on how you respond to both crisis and achievement.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you, one of the lessons I always told people. |
| 0:02.7 | In life, you're either going into or you're coming out of a crisis. |
| 0:08.7 | That's the way it is. |
| 0:12.0 | Challenges come your way. |
| 0:15.2 | Trouble comes your way. |
| 0:17.4 | Things happen. |
| 0:19.4 | It's how you respond. It's how you respond. It's how you respond in life to challenges |
| 0:27.4 | and, by the way, to success. One of the greatest enemies of success is success. |
| 0:35.4 | Music Success is success. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome back to the quarter of the day. I'm your host, Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com. |
| 0:55.0 | We got John Addison on the show to wrap up our week. |
| 0:58.5 | He's going to cover several different topics, but I think the most important one is when he says one of the greatest enemies of success is success. |
| 1:08.0 | John Addison's coming up. |
| 1:11.0 | You're not going to win the lottery. |
| 1:14.3 | Lucky doesn't happen to most people. |
| 1:18.2 | You know, as you can tell, this is an authentic southern accent. |
| 1:23.7 | I was born and raised in a little community called Covington, Georgia. |
| 1:28.3 | I live now in North Georgia, have a farm near Gainesville, Georgia. |
| 1:35.3 | And I always laugh about, you know, you can always tell, because I'm not a gambler. |
| 1:41.3 | If the casino here was going to try to make money off me, |
| 1:46.3 | they would be out of business. I walk through them quickly. I mean, it's just not, I have many, |
| 1:52.0 | many bad habits, but that's not one of them. And I'm also, you know, I don't do the lottery |
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