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Success Quotes

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

In my business, you can't trust anyone because you don't know who is your friend. Becoming successful means, you become a prisoner.

Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.

Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? Yet these relations are of the highest importance, for they determine the present welfare, and, as I believe, the future success and modification of every inhabitant of this world.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Let us be thankful for the fools. Because of them the rest of us could not succeed.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The secret to success is to make your vocation your vacation.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and virtuous.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

God doesn't require you to succeed, he only requires that you try.