“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do, your success, in this industry, is always going to be governed in large part by luck.”— Felix Salmon, fusion.net
“You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”— David W. Orr, amazon.com
“I’m exactly as happy as I was when I was waiting tables. I don’t think people get happier. But knowing that you’re financially OK and you can have health insurance is really nice.”— Amy Schumer, theguardian.com
“One of my greatest lessons has been to fully understand that what looks like a dark patch in the quest for success is the universe pointing you in a new direction.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“Success isn’t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren’t truly emotionally invested in your work.”— Biz Stone, amazon.com
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”— Arnold Glasgow, brainyquote.com
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never…”— Brian Tracy, goodreads.com
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”— Kyle Chandler, brainyquote.com
“Success is like wrestling with a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”— Robert Strauss, goodreads.com
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”— Marianne Williamson, skdesigns.com
“Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the successes totally as a personal reflection of their abilities rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.”— Jim Paul, amazon.com