Quotes about success

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.

Anton Chekhov

Some people say that ‘the journey is the reward.’ Which is sometimes true. But then success is the refund.

John Gray

Someone once said that death is God’s way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

Guy Kawasaki

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.

Reid Hoffman

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Paulo Coelho

Here’s conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Seth Godin

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart’s phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Sam Walton