Quotes About Success

it must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure and enormously long lunch-breaks.

The winning team shall be the first team that wins. Curiously

I freewheel a lot. I get an idea to do something, and, hey, why not, I do it. I reckon I'll become President of the Galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy. I decide to steal this ship. I decide to look for Magrathea, and it all just happens. Yeah, I work out how it can best be done, right, but it always works out. It's like having a Galacticredit card which keeps on working though you never send off the cheques.

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

You know, from what I've seen, at twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional. And by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.

one of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some of the crazy genes, you don't end up crazy; you merely end up different. And it's that difference that gives you an edge, that makes you successfull.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don't know any successful people

I was convinced that all of the people I'd ever gone to school with were headed for great things in life and I wasn't. They were having more fun; finding more meaning in life.

The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic—geeky and rich and hip.

perfection was not only impossible, but the enemy of success. The real key was flexibility in the face of the unexpected, or, as someone once said, the "known unknowns.

Douglas Preston

anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.

It's not enough to figure out how to do something. You must also analyze every possible path to failure. Only then can you be certain of success.

J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.

In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.