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" Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. "

Tennessee Williams

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" Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes. "

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" Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. "

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" The victor belongs to the spoils. "

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" When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. "

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" I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success. "

" To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. "

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" To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously. "

" Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. "

" It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples. "

Marcus Buckingham

" The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service. "

" Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. "

" Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. "

" I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. "

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" The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. "

" Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself. "

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" What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. "

" Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming. "

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" Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. "

" I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. "

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" There is no substitute for victory. "

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" Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. "

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" Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. "