Quotes About Success

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

Ogni cosa sotto il cielo finisce, e se si ritiene che la temporalità ne infici il valore, allora nulla che sia reale ottiene mai il successo.

If prayer actually worked, everyone would be a millionaire, nobody would ever get sick and die, and both football teams would always win. —Ethan Winer

You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth

Fantasies are like extra cash, they need to be banked for later use. I chuckle to myself, remembering Quentin Tarantino's hilarious line onstage when I interviewes him in the Provincetown Film Festival. 'What was the best thing about your success?' I had asked, and he answered, 'Pussy… no, the memory of pussy'.

A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

This was the power of Andrew Carnegie's legacy. He had used his wealth to set up over 2,000 public libraries across North America. Three generations after his death, they were continuing to pay dividends. These new American citizens were fortunate that Carnegie had thought long-term. For the Taiwanese boys, Carnegie had created the hardware, and their mother the software. This bode well for their assimilation and success in America.

Did my job really matter? A successful year would only help a rich company get richer.

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing