“Well, success does not mean doing well.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.”

“When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.”

“People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.”

“I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.”

“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

“There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.”

“My definition of success is control.”

“Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.”

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

“Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.”