Quotes About Success

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

Adapting a recipe's ingredients is completely in your hands. But the method is what really matters. The techniques in cooking are rigorous and imperative: They are your passport to a successful dish. Cooks must practice, practice, practice. Anyone can learn, but you need focus, proper understanding, and to go at the right pace, not running before you can walk.

After a while, Dad went off to Spain, and I didn't see him for many years. I was too busy trying to make a success of my life, but even if I hadn't been working every hour God sent, I had no real wish to see him.

There was no way I wanted to be a pathetic dreamer like him for the rest of my life. I wanted to be the best at whatever I did. The only question was: what would that be?

And that is the whole secret of successful advertising. A good store, selling good goods at right prices, is the foundation... No advertising should be better than the store behind it.

Win or lose, every time you do something in life be positive about it, be proud of the progress you're making.

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure.

If you fail to look at the Brightside of life, You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.

Coffee breath: the smell of success.

May the birdies always land at your feet.

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

Industry is the parent of fortune.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity; and I know that praise rightly given, implying real success and assuring us that we have done what we strove to do, is what you say — just vital oxygen.

Ambition — What will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

If you've climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you've far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.

The view is better when it is earned.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Here's to the fish he caught, Here's to the one that got away, And here's to the one he bought.

You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.