Subject: Success (Page 2)

You should always accept because of the pain it brings to your enemies.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.

(1926 – 1983) American comedian & singer

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Old age is like everything else; to make a success of it, you've got to start young.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known; for others, it depends on never being found out.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth; it is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Give me two years, and I'll make her an overnight star.

(1891 – 1958) American president of Columbia Pictures & producer

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

If anything goes bad, I did it… if anything goes semi-good, we did it… if anything goes really good, then you did it; that's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous… that’s easy… it’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.

(1958 – ) American film & theater actor

A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

(1914 – ) historian

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1974 – ) American comedian

One day you are a signature, next day you’re an autograph.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

(1894 – 1974) comedian, radio & television host

Success is a public affair; failure is a private funeral.

(1907 – 1976) American actress

I don’t mind the high price of stardom, I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

(1926 – ) film director, screenwriter, composer, comedian, actor & producer