Successful Man Quotes - Page 2

• Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Witty

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• I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

  Nelson Mandela

  Successful, Unique, Men

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Men, Looks

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• I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

  Hugh Hefner

  Successful, Men, World

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• Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

  Elton John

  Successful, Intelligent, Men

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• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, Men, Experts

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• Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Successful, Men

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• It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Successful, Men, Vanity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

  Mark Cane

  Successful, Men, People

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• The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Successful, Men, Ideas

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.288, e-artnow

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• Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Men, Proportion

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2475, e-artnow

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Success, Perseverance, Men

  Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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• Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Integrity, Successful, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.147, Vivekananda Kendra

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• A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Fun, Successful, Men

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2275, Delphi Classics

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

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Men, Realizing

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• Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

  B. C. Forbes

  Brother, Growing Up, Successful

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• The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Sports, Heart

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• How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

  Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

  Successful, Men, Interesting

  Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1902). “Success”

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• I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Failure, Successful, Men

  "John D. Rockefeller and His Career". Book by Silas Hubbard, p. 72, 1904.

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• The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Successful, Blow, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.288, e-artnow

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• Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Successful, Men

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.50, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, School, Successful

  Twitter post from Apr 1, 2014

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