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

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. He learns that he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated.

In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to gt the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Speech of 1870-06-24

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering-to personality and the ability to lead people.