Success

Success is never final. --Winston Churchill

I'll tell you what's like to be Number One. I compare it to climbing Mt. Everest. It's very difficult. Lives are lost along the way. You struggle and struggle and finally you get up
there. And guess what there is once you get up there? Snow and ice. –David Merrick

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. –Bill Cosby

[R]isk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probablility. Beyond that, it is all randomness: either by taking enormous (and unconscious) risks, or by being extraordinarily lucky. Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance. --Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The central maxim of submarining is “Keep the number of surfacings equal to the number of dives.”

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill

Confidence doesn’t come from winning. Winning comes from confidence. And that confidence comes from hard work. –Tom Callahan (writing of Vijay Singh)

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. –Brian Moore

[upon winning the Nobel Prize] The child in me is delighted. The adult in me is skeptical. --Saul Bellow

Men can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. –George Bernard Shaw

The best single piece of advice from Peter Drucker: Stop thinking about what you can achieve; think about what you can contribute (to your company, your customers, your marriage, your community). –Rich Karlgaard

There’s a common viewpoint, frequently stated, that if you want something enough, and work at it hard enough, you will get it. News flash: This is a lie, propagated by successful people who don’t want to admit that their success is more to do with luck and circumstance. –The Golf Guru, Golf Digest

I didn’t know I would succeed, but I did know I had a fear of failure. –Gordon Parks

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. –John Maynard Keynes

Business success is mostly about waiting for something lucky to happen and then taking credit. –Scott Adams

He thought of himself as a successful man, even though he’d never been a success at anything. –Sherwood Anderson, “Winesburg, Ohio”

There’s an old Chinese proverb: The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you succeed. –Bob Parsons

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. –James Yorke