Success Quotes

“There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”

-- Barack Obama

“Well, success does not mean doing well.”

-- Shirley MacLaine

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

-- Dale Carnegie

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

-- Dale Carnegie

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

-- Henry Ford

“Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.”

-- Henry Louis Gates

“It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.”

-- Carrot Top

“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

-- W. Clement Stone

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

-- Booker T. Washington

“All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.”

-- Tom Peters