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Quotes About Success

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
~ Horace Greeley
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
~ Christina Stead
I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.
~ Gary Hoey
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
~ Gracie Allen
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
~ Ann Landers
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
~ Ludwig von Mises
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
~ Malcolm X
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
~ Mary Renault
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
~ Moliere
And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
~ Jules Renard
Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
~ Solomon
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
~ Tamara Ecclestone
If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
~ Earl Nightingale
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.
~ Giacomo Casanova
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.
~ Grace Coolidge
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
~ David Bowie
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
~ Andrew Carnegie
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
~ Antoine Rivarol
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?
~ Ben Hogan
That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast
~ Drake
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.
~ Earl Nightingale