Quotes About Comparison

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.