Quotes About Success

What if citizens organized to demand what the Declaration of Independence promised: a government that protected the equal rights of all to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? This would call for an economic system that distributed wealth in a thoughtful and humane way. It would mean a culture where young people were not taught to seek success as a mask for greed. Throughout

The business of America is business,' said Calvin Coolidge

Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.

Still humping the American Dream

They would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven. Nothing grabs an editor's eye like a good rape.

Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.

We are going out again in search of the American dream.

Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who life on that level grow very accustomed to very thin, rarified air. They have trouble breathing in the lower altitudes; and if they can't breath right, they can't function.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off." —J. Conrad

The ugly truth is that Wallace had never even bothered to understand the problems—much less come up with any honest solutions—but "the Fighting Little Judge" has never lost much sleep from guilt feelings about his personal credibility gap. Southern politicians are not made that way. Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A

Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich...

One can sympathize with the sentiment of Pakistanis who must constantly defend their country against criticism ranging from questioning of its very creation to its current policies. But it is equally important to understand that mere survival does not equate success and that progress often requires uninhibited introspection.

We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.

And even a small amount of talent can go an appallingly long way, these days.

Well, it is always easier to succeed at death.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Rouvier was the Finance Minister; I knew him by sight, although I had not yet met him. He was not widely liked. Apart from the whiff of indecency that Lucien referred to, he was also rumoured to be less than straightforward in his dealings with his fellow men. To put it another way, he was devious even by the standards of politicians; a long and successful career awaited him.

All you have to do is give people what they want, reflect themselves back into their own eyes, and they will fall over to crush money into your outstretched hand.

many developing countries, governments are becoming victims of their own success. Those who have joined the new middle class don't just want better government; they expect it. They demand it. This is the natural result of a larger international success story that is now visible even to those who haven't fully shared in it.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

power is the goal of all ambition