Quotes About Success

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

No man fails who does his best.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.