“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”
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“Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.”
“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.”
“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
“An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.”
“You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.”
“Success is survival.”
“Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.”
“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.”
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”
“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
“I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.”
“People fall forward to success.”
“I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.”
“Why be a man when you can be a success?”
“Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.”
“The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.”
“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
“If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.”
“I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.”
“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”