Quotes About Success

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.