Best Successful Man Quotes

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

That’s how you become successful, man – you gotta stay busy.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

The successful man doesn’t use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she’s strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

I guess I’m the most successful man I know. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody in the world.

Literature nowadays is a trade… the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent – even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he’s succeeded, and the failure because he’s failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father’s good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father’s mistakes.

Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.

Success … seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only–to retire–and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn’t think they deserved to do nothing.