Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790“On True Happiness”, Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735).Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15- Milton Friedman1912–2006Lecture “The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community” (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 7
Peter Gabrielborn 1950The Kate Bush Story (2014), On Kate Bush
Lady Gagaborn 1986“The Rise of Lady Gaga” by Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone (11 June 2009), pp. 57-61
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan (19 November 1938) p. 343I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield1831–1881A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being A Cyclopedia Of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 327Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield1831–1881As quoted in E. E. Brown, The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881), p. 437Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gatesborn 1955Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill Gatesborn 1955The Road Ahead (1995)
