Quotes About Success

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries. If you are sure you are right, do not let the voice of the world, or of friends, or of family swerve you for a moment from your purpose.

We envy the success of others, when we should emulate the process by which that success came.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. The

The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me. Certain

If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object? Those

I don't have any wonderful insights that other people don't have. I just have slightly more consistently than others avoided idiocy. Other people are trying to be smart. All I'm trying to be is non-idiotic. I find that all you have to do to get ahead in life is to be non-idiotic and live a long time. It's harder to be non-idiotic than most people think.

It was some great good news that could wring a smile then from Christ, or tune his spirit into a joyful note, who was 'a man of sorrows,' and indeed came into the world to be so. Yet when his disciples whom he had sent forth to preach the gospel, returned with news of some victorious success of their labours, 'in that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father,' Luke 10:21.

The saddest consequence which attends the prosperity and success of God's enemies in the world, is their pride and blasphemy against God, his truth, and church.

Time is the deadly enemy of the technology business. Today's great idea is tomorrow's obsolete concept. The longer it takes a company to get its product to the market, the greater the likelihood a competitor will be there first. Big plans with extended schedules are a risk in any business,

I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody.

I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.

My brother, Major General Lawrence Heinlein, once told me that there are only two promotions in life that mean a damn: from buck private to corporal, and from colonel to general officer. I made corporal decades ago Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but now at long last I know what he meant about the other. Thank you.17