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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

2251 | John Addison: "One of The Greatest Enemies of Success is Success.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K 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.”

Transcript

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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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