Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

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

The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business-or almost anywhere else, for that matter.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.