Success Quotes

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

My success is not who I am.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Success has always been a great liar.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.