Subject: Success (Page 3)

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

(1969 – ) American actress, film director & producer

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

(1925 – ) writer

I want to be a diva… like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-Diet-Coke-around.

(1980 – ) American singer

Brute force, clumsiness, ignorance, and superstition will always triumph over science, skill, knowledge, and logic.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

(1946 – 1989) comedian & actress

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

(1939 – ) American baseball player

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

comedian, counselor & speaker

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

(1933 – 1998) comedian & actor

Success has killed more men than bullets.

(1884 – 1933) American saloon keeper, actress & entrepreneur

I’d rather lose at pinochle than win at solitaire.

(1914 – 2011) American politician

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? … Get me Mary Astor… Get me a Mary Astor type… Get me a young Mary Astor… Who’s Mary Astor?

(1906 – 1987) American actress

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

(1918 – 1990) American composer, conductor, author & pianist

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

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.