“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”

“The secret of my success is my hairspray.”

“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.”

“As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.”

“The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?”

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”

“I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.”

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”