Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is read more

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to read more

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success read more

Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body read more

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.