Quotes About Success

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

That was the only thing Lydia cared about now—money: how much she could make, how much she could hold on to. Four marriages, a son, a grandson, and all she had to show for it were these cold little objects scattered around her pristine mansion.

No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. "She just wanted peace

Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Non c'è via maestra per la scienza, e solo hanno una probabilità di raggiungerne le vette luminose coloro che non temono di affaticarsi a salirne i ripidi sentieri.

noblesse parlementaire par cinq départements qui avaient groupé leurs vois sur son nom. Ainsi, la Montagne paraissait, le 29 mai 1849, étant donné les conflits inévitables entre les différentes fractions monarchistes et entre l'ensemble du parti de l'ordre et Bonaparte, avoir pour elle tous les éléments de succès. Quinze jours plus tard, elle avait tout perdu, y compris l'honneur.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

I like the way you hustle man.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.