Quotes About Success

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.