#success is

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#asking #concept #guard #like #live

To me, success is choice and opportunity. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#me #opportunity #success #success is

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#been #business #commercial #commercial success #enough

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#failure #fine #know #line #often

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him! ↗

— George Kennedy

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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#aphorism #best #could #else #father

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #done #hand #made #measure

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. ↗

— John Wooden

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The true success is the person who invented himself. ↗

— Al Goldstein

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