Quotes About Success

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

Luck is good planning, carefully executed.

Each man's character shapes his fortunes.

Motivation triggers luck.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire, so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.