Quotes About Success

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.