Quotes about Success

Hence much reading deprives the mind of all elasticity, as a weight continually pressing upon it does a spring, and the most certain means of never having any original thoughts is to take a book in hand at once, at every spare moment. This practice is the reason why scholarship makes most men more unintelligent and stupid than they are by nature, and deprives their writings of all success; they are, as Pope says— 'For ever reading, never to be read'.

Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it.

I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself.