Quotes About Success

business of man is to be happy

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

We must give our children fear. It is a rich and immensely valuable experience to know fear. Fear in context, fear that exists in complex relationships with other forces, fear that has limits and can be contained within safe places: this is the only way people at the beginning of their life journeys can develop an arsenal powerful enough to ensure that those journeys are healthy, satisfying and successful.

I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others

The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.

No matter what job you get,' he told my mother, 'you can make a good one out of it

But, as Winston Churchill observed, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Look at almost any of the great players. Would they have succeeded anyway if they hadn't been pushed? That's the unanswerable question. Would Agassi have been a great champion if he hadn't been pushed by his father? Would Monica Seles, if her father hadn't quit his job and pushed her? It's difficult to say.

My life feels good—and better all the time—but as good as it gets, sometimes it's hard to forget those tremendous victories…. That's when I have to remind myself that I really had no one to share those victories with. That's when I remember how cold the top of the mountain was.