Quotes About Success

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.

Baby, that's grammar school. Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out here we call it hustling. I'd like to be a good hustler.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

that boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they made all the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. It finally boiled down to a matter of who got the most votes. In the land of the moles a mole was king

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

I had a cigar in my mouth and whiskey on my breath. I felt like money. I looked like money.

It's hell when you're too good to make money.

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Stanley was right. I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren't quite sure why. Football

There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers except for the luck of the draw - parents with enough money to point you toward a more generous death. of course, some come through brilliantly, but there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.

Fast jeder kommt als Genie auf die Welt und wird als Idiot begraben.

so you went with the famous and wrote about the famous, and, of course, what you found out is that the famous are worried about their fame—not the beautiful young girl in bed with them

I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren't quite sure why.

Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What