Quotes About Success

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

You'll Never Win ... until you Lose

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.

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

In short, a successful military policy is possible when, and only when, it is one of at least three strands of the policies of the allied countries. The other two are the political and the economic.

There is no goal too gigantic, for God not to see you accomplish.

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

The winning investor's objective should be to have one or two big winners rather than dozens of very small profits" (How to Make Money in Stocks, 4th ed. [New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009], 274).

Happiness is a direct consequence of personal effort.

A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

Individual honors come with team success.

arriver en terrain conquis (arriving on conquered ground),

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.

Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.

If you want it badly enough, it's yours.

One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals.

My first picture was Kitty Foyle. It was my mother who made all those films with Fred Astaire.