Quotes About Success

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Credit is a young man's capital.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.