Quotes About Success

The test distills into a few questions: What is your attitude toward people who surpass you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishments? Do you aspire to equal their excellence, or does it make you seethe? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?

Even though Jews are a tiny minority of less than a tenth of 1 percent of the world's people, they comprise perhaps a quarter of the world's paramount capitalists and entrepreneurs.

You got a promotion with extra responsibilities but without pay or additional benefits." Mom smiled. "I'm so proud of you. You're officially a successful adult.

Humble is for losers. I am a winner.

You have to let your people take pride in a job well accomplished and recognize them for it. You will get better results.

Any landing you could walk away from was a good landing.

My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents." "Do you think it's true?" he asked. "I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time.

Some part of me is still convinced it's a fluke and eventually it will be ripped away from me. Deep down I expect it. Any hint of it and I roll down the cliff.

I don't come from money, Curran said. His voice rolled, filling the space. Everything I have I made with my own two hands, and I have to work hard every day for it. Even Daniels? another merc asked. That got some giggles. Curran cracked a smile. It was a bright, infectious smile. Especially Daniels. I work to keep her daily. Otherwise she wouldn't put up with me.

We worked very hard to move out of House Rogan's shadow and I won't trade that independence for an easy paycheck.

Nietzsche spoke for the samurai heart when he wrote, "You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also." Indeed valor and honor alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.

You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also

De tilhørte nemlig den klassen av det franske høyborgerskapet som heller vil se barna sine uten brød, kjøtt og luft enn uten eksamenspapirer.

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

I shall not attempt here to describe my marriage. Some impression of it will doubtless emerge. For the present story, its general nature rather than its detail is important. It was not a success. At first I saw her as a life-bringer. Then I saw her as a death-bringer. Some women are like that. There is a sort of energy which seems to reveal the world: then one day you find you are being devoured. Fellow victims will know what I mean. Possibly I am a natural bachelor.

He notes the depressing haste with which the successful, in the sexual sphere as in all others, segment themselves from the failures.

Since he was sixteen, he had been continuously sexually active, either with a girlfriend or through a series of casual flings. From the point of someone like Kibby, he considered, he would be regarded as highly succesful with women. But the real problem is relationships, which fucking social retards like Kibby can't grasp, because they're just so obsessed with getting their hole.

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n ?w. That's it; end ay fuckin story.

The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am.

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.