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- I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
- From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
- R. D. Laing
- Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
- Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Tony Robbins
- Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
- Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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