Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

Glasow reduces “success” to a practical ethical formula: align action with moral correctness (“what’s right”), competent execution (“the right way”), and sound judgment about timing (“at the right time”). The triad suggests that results are not merely a matter of ambition or talent; they depend on integrity, method, and situational awareness working together. It also implies that shortcuts—doing the right thing poorly, or doing it well but at the wrong moment—undercut lasting achievement. The aphorism’s simplicity is rhetorical: it frames success as accessible in principle, yet demanding in practice because it requires consistent virtue, skill, and discernment.