Quotes About Success

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Massive success is the best revenge.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.