Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

People fall forward to success.

When success comes people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume that it's just a mind set that it's just an addiction then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

While I was doing stand-up I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no and I even wore a few dresses.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

In order that people may be happy in their work these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

You do the work and you want people to see it but um while I'm doing the work the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately I don't I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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