My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Whenever I hear 'It can't be done ' I know I'm close to success.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple it's just gone like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Look if you ask a child 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Thought is the original source of all wealth all success all material gain all great discoveries and inventions and of all achievement.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder everybody loves you because you're not competition.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes another for 30 days but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is therefore a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Writers as they gain success feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

When one has success the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up never stop.

You know I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

That's the key to success isn't it? It has to be fun.