Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 7One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller1891–1980Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 25There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Soldiers Three, The Winners (L’Envoi: What Is the Moral?), Stanza 1 (1888).Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Henry Ford1863–1947My Life and Work (1922), p. 72. Chapter IV, : Remark about the Model T in 1909Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Common Language of Science”, broadcast (28 September 1941); reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954)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).When a man is trying to sell you something, don’t imagine he is that polite all the time.
E. W. Howe1853–1937Country Town Sayings (1911), p. 34.‘Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)I 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. 327The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.
Marshall McLuhan1911–1980Understanding Media (1964) (p. 154)If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), Part 3, p. 235I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Under Western Eyes (1911), Pt. IIt is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Berkeley, CA (1911)You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou1928–2014Letter to My Daughter (2008)