Quotes About Success

Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

One should always play fairly... when one has the winning cards.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

Position and wealth are not everything.

Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.

By yielding you may obtain victory

and I will reach the stars with the crown of my head

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.

You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.

The reality remains that teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.

T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, What are my big scenes? and then get every drop of juice out of them. (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)

Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

What with one thing and another, I can't remember ever having been chirpier than at about this period in my career. Everything seemed to be going right. On three separate occasions horses on which I'd invested a sizeable amount won by lengths instead of sitting down to rest in the middle of the race, as horses usually do when I've got money on them. ~ Bertram Bertie Wooster - The Inimitable Jeeves

A dog without influence or private means, if he is to make his way in the world, must have either good looks or amiability.

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count.

He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start.

Yes, sir. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still further down.

A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance.