“If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.”

“It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”

“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.”

“I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.”

“In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.”

“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.”

“The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.”

“Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”

“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”

“Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.”

“I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.”

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”

“When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.”

“Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

“I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.”

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”

“Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.”