Quotes about Success

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.