Success Quotes

Success means different things to different people, which is exactly the point. These quotes challenge conventional definitions and offer alternatives — because the version of success that actually makes you happy might not be the one on the magazine cover.

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”

Booker T. Washington

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“The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.”

Vicente Fox

“The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.”

Sammy Davis, Jr.

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”

Paul Getty

“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”

John Hodgman

“I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.”

Puff Daddy

“Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.”

Keith Henson

“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”

Marquis de Sade

“Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.”

Tiger Woods

“You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.”

Jack Welch

“The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.”

George Henry Lewes

“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.”

Nicki Minaj

“Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.”

Nancy Pelosi

“I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.”

Calvin Klein

“I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.”

Andy Murray

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