Subject: Success (Page 4)

You can always tell luck from ability by its duration.

Success

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

(1892 – 1976) oil industrialist (once world’s richest man)
Money Success Wealth

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Husbands Men People Success Wives Women

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

(1902 – 1983) Australian novelist & short-story writer
Education Success

Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it; today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.

(1934 – 2012) United States Army general
Occupations Success Work

I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay, and signed autographs for people who’ve been gone from America for so long they didn’t realize that I’m not famous.

(1978 – ) American comedian & writer
Success

The usual drawback to success is that it annoys one’s friends so.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Success

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Friends People Relationships Success Young

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats – approximately one billion Chinese couldn’t give a shit.

Life Murphy’s Laws Success

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

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

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.

Murphy’s Laws Sports Success

Why should I have become elevated to a position of first-page importance merely because I am somewhat more dexterous than most in manipulating a contrivance of catgut and wood which is commonly called a tennis racquet?

first American female professional tennis player
Sports Success

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Murphy’s Laws Success Things

Make a sex tape, upload it, get on a reality show, release a perfume, retire… that’s the new American dream.

(1974 – ) American comedian
Success

If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Nobody loves a winner who wins all the time.

Success

There is no deodorant like success.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress
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

[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director
Children Family Parents Success

If you think you can, you’re right; and if you think you can’t, you’re right.

(1918 – 2001) American businesswoman & founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
Success Work

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer
Success