Quotes About Success

Rookwood garnered wide critical and financial success, and pleased his associates at Fraser's Magazine.

Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Infinite are the mortifications of the bare attempt to emerge from obscurity; numberless the failures; and greater and more galling still the vicissitudes and tormenting accompaniments of success.

The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear; Try, try again.

I'm amused when financial planners and academics talk about methods that predict a 40-year success rate of, say, 95%. If you think about it, this implies that our political and financial institutions will remain intact for about the next millenium (40 years divided by a failure rate of 5% equals 800 years). Considering the history of human civilization, this is a pretty heroic assumption.

One hoary investment company story describes a young broker asking an old one about the secret to his success. The latter replies, "It's simple; over the years I've slowly transferred my client's assets to my own name.

If done properly, successful investing entertains as much as watching clothes tumble in the dryer window. Always remember that the more exciting a given stock or asset class is, the more likely it is to be over-owned, overpriced, and destined for low future returns.

What investment banking is to the ambitious and acquisitive today, the pepper trade was to the Romans—the most direct route to great riches.

Great intelligence and good luck are not required. The essential characteristics of the successful investor are the discipline and stamina to, in the words of John Bogle, "stay the course." Investing is not a destination. It is an ongoing journey through its four continents—theory, history, psychology, and business.

The chilling effect upon the exercise of First Amendment rights may derive from the fact of the prosecution, unaffected by prospects of its success or failure.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

The whole secret to winning big in the stock market is not to be right all the time, but to lose the least amount possible when you're wrong.