When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.
