Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced. . . the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
With high trust, success comes faster, better, and at lower cost.
I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
all success cloaks a surrender
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
What you are longing for is longing for you.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr. , Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres. ]
When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.
Don't be a person of success, be a person of value.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.