Quotes About Success

Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.