These first three points are related. Success comes from understanding and caring deeply about your products, your technology and your customers' needs. Fourth, you as an individual employee should maintain the same type of long-term approach that a good company does. Employees need to focus on lifelong goals such as developing their own skills and those of the people they work with. This kind of self-motivation requires discipline, but it can be quite rewarding.
Management can also encourage motivation, of course.
If you're in sales, quotas are important tools for measuring performance, and it's great when employees beat a quota. But if beating your sales quota or maximising your next bonus is all that motivates you, you're likely to miss out on the kind of teamwork and development that create success in the long term. Fifth, you need to have specialised knowledge or skills while maintaining a broad perspective. Big companies, in particular, need employees who can learn specialities quickly. No one should assume that the expertise they have today will suffice tomorrow, so a willingness to learn is critical.