Subject: Success

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

(1945 – ) author, music journalist & cultural critic
People Situations Success

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

(1880 – ?) American author
Success

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer
Success

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter
Success Time

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

professional baseball player & executive
Misspokements Sports Success

These days a star is anyone who can hold a microphone; a super star is someone who has shaken hands with Lew Grade, and a super-super-star is someone who has refused to shake hands with Lew Grade.

(1921 – 2001) Welsh comedian & singer
Success

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Success

The road to success is always under construction.

(1929 – 2016) American golfer
Problems Success

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla; you don’t quit when you’re tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired.

(1913 – 1975) American actor
Success

Dirty blonde … I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Appearance Body Success

If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Success Work

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

(1949 – 1982) American comedian, actor & musician
Life Success

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

(1908 – 1999) English writer
Failure Problems Success

Jack Benny's ability on the violin was legendary; everybody knew he had none.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment Music Success Things

My career must be slipping… this is the first time I’ve been available to pick up an award.

(1933 – ) English actor
Success Work

I don’t mind the high price of stardom, I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Money Sports Success

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

(1910 – 1999) American U.S. Air Force officer & flight surgeon
Murphy’s Laws Success

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist
Age Life Success Time

Nobody loves a winner who wins all the time.

Success

Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Success Time