"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick."

"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 a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."

"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"Success is dependent on effort."

"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."

"That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."