Success Quotes
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
-- Ben Stein
“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”
-- Michael Korda
“People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”
-- Kate Moss
“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”
-- John Hodgman
“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
-- Graham Greene
“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.”
-- Vera Wang