The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
To judge between good or bad between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive less and less fired up with enthusiasm in many spheres.