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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.