You want to be successful.  You wish you could achieve the same level of success as many of the people you admire.   But how can you get there?  The answer is surprisingly simple.  Study the traits of successful people and develop those traits yourself.  But what exactly are the traits of successful people?  We will take a look at several sources that lay out these traits for you.

In the article Top 10 Traits of Highly Successful People – That You Can Learn!, Philip Humbert lists 10 traits that he found to be common amongst the successful people that he admires.  These are the people who Philip thinks do well in many areas of life and do it over and over again throughout their lives.

The Get Rich Slowly blog has a good guest post from Pinyo called the Seven Traits of Successful People in which the author discusses traits he has observed in successful people and that have worked well for him in his pursuit of success. 

Chris Melton of soupornuts.com has written the article Twenty Traits of Successful People, elegantly stating that while successful people are different, they all have some common traits.

It doesn’t matter if it is seven, ten or twenty traits.  As you read through these articles you will start to see a pattern evolving with some of the same traits or characteristics appearing, perhaps under different labels or descriptions, but most reinforcing the same concepts.

The following video discusses the traits of successful people and zooms in on one particular trait that has been crucial to the success of Howard Schultz at Starbucks: persistence.

 

 

‘I have a history of people closing doors and me saying: “No, it is still open!”'

Howard Schultz

Studies have shown that the traits of successful people can be learned.  If you apply yourself and diligently practice developing the traits listed from the several sources above, you will certainly achieve success yourself.