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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau

Director · French · 1889 – 1963

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Novelist · English · 1811 – 1863

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Cathy Guisewite

Cartoonist · American · b. 1950

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

Dick Wolf

Producer · American · b. 1946

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Keith Henson

Scientist · American

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

Barry Levinson

Director · American · b. 1922

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Mary Harris Jones

Activist · American · 1837 – 1930

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Statesman · Roman

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Writer · American

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Bruce Barton

Author · American · 1886 – 1967

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Abdul Kalam

Statesman · Indian · b. 1931

Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

Businessman · American · 1892 – 1976

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

Soldier · American · 1885 – 1945

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Andrew Carnegie

Businessman · American · 1835 – 1919

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Ralph Marston

Writer · American · b. 1955

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Tennessee Williams

Dramatist · American · 1911 – 1983

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels

Politician · American · b. 1949

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Harold MacMillan

Politician · English · 1894 – 1986

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

Clergyman · American · b. 1926

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Writer · English

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer

Novelist · American · 1923 – 2007

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

Brian Celio

Novelist · American · b. 1981

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Linus Torvalds

Businessman · Finnish · b. 1969

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Statesman · Roman

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Writer · American

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Paul Tsongas

Politician · American · 1941 – 1997

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Vincent Bugliosi

Author · American · b. 1934

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

Psychologist · American · 1900 – 1980

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Lee Iacocca

Businessman · American · b. 1924

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Walter Scott

Novelist · Scottish · 1771 – 1832

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Brian Tracy

Author · American

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

Educator · American · 1856 – 1915

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Politician · Pakistani · 1876 – 1948

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Charles de Secondat

Philosopher · French · 1689 – 1755

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Ann Landers

Journalist · American · 1918 – 2002

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Theodor Herzl

Journalist · Hungarian · 1860 – 1904

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Anita Roddick

Businessman · English · b. 1942

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

David Sarnoff

Inventor · American · 1891 – 1971

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

Joe Eszterhas

Writer · Hungarian · b. 1944

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Author · American

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Author · American

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

Statesman · South African · b. 1918

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

Writer · American

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

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