“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

“I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.”

“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.”

“I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.”

“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.”

“Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.”

“I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.”

“The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.”

“The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”

“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.”

“But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.”

“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

“Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'”

“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”

“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”

“I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.”

“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.”

“For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.”