Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering-to personality and the ability to lead people.

In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.