Quotes About Success

And that's the end. He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart, forgotten, unforgiven, and excessively romantic. Not in the wildest days of his boyish visions could he have seen the alluring shape of such an extraordinary success! For it may very well be that in the short moment of his last proud and unflinching glance, he had beheld the face of that opportunity which, like an Eastern bride, had come veiled to his side.

At such times his thoughts would be full of valorous deeds: he loved these dreams and the success of his imaginary achievements.

Don't imagine that a college education is necessary to success as a writer. Far from it. Some of our college men are dead-heads, drones, parasites on the body social, not alone useless to the world but to themselves.

In other fields of endeavor poverty has been the spur to action. Napoleon was born in obscurity, the son of a hand-to-mouth scrivener in the backward island of Corsica. Abraham Lincoln, the boast and pride of America, the man who made this land too hot for the feet of slaves, came from a log cabin in the Ohio backwoods. So did James A. Garfield. Ulysses Grant came from a tanyard to become the world's greatest general. Thomas A. Edison commenced as a newsboy on a railway train.

In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.

Joseph Devlin

El éxito de Trump ha sido el de formar una coalición con la comunidad empresarial, igual que entonces: los fascistas solo llegaron al poder con el apoyo de una amplia coalición conservadora que incluía al empresariado.

He never bragged about how well he had done in business, but it was clear that he was pleased by the fact that, living by his few tight moral maxims—keep your overhead low, don't live beyond your means, always put something away for a rainy day—he had come out a winner. Always a methodical businessman, my

College education is highly overrated. Take it from a man who dispensed it.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.   —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He'd been bold all right, but Fortune hadn't gotten the memo.

that the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.

the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.

When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, for fear they may start doing worse.

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.

It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.