I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?
When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of s...
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
