The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O’Rourke
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn’t enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Gary Ryan Blair
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we’ll have them tomorrow.
Kathy Ireland
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace