Top 96 Early Success Quotes
#1. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
Andy Gibb
#2. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
#3. Do not fall into this trap of early success. Regardless of your current skill level, it is crucial that you continue to work hard so that you will continue to improve. Only by continuing to improve will you give yourself the opportunity to reach your potential in your sport.
Jennifer L. Etnier
#4. This isolation was key to Farber's early success. Insulated from the spotlights of public scrutiny, he worked on a small, obscure piece of the puzzle. Leukemia was an orphan disease, abandoned by internists, who had no drugs to offer for it, and by surgeons, who could not possibly operate on blood.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#5. I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.
Philip Glass
#6. Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
Arthur Miller
#7. There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
Bill Vaughan
#8. The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#9. Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.
Chris Hadfield
#10. October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment - when the Big Red Machine became a dynasty by defending it's World Championship from the season before.
Tucker Elliot
#11. If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.
Ken Ham
#12. Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.
Liz Phair
#13. I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
Jack Bruce
#14. Our early success, blessing that it was, made us complacent and we weren't sufficiently afraid of what came next. Sometimes having a little fear early saves one from experiencing a big fear later on. [Al Gleeson in THE HALCYON DISLOCATION]
Peter Kazmaier
#15. Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.
Charles Bukowski
#16. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#17. I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.
Judy Collins
#18. It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#19. Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
Bill Gates
#20. We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.
Biz Stone
#21. Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.
Frederick Lenz
#22. My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
Tino Sehgal
#23. Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
#24. Success doesn't know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.
Greg Plitt
#25. Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
Matthew Perry
#26. You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. He sees our lineal success as a fortunate fluke: "Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay." Gould
Bill Bryson
#28. Let's recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn't a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#29. Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer - that is the ultimate success.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#30. A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.
Garry Kasparov
#31. If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
Steve Carell
#32. Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope
#33. Early to bed and early to work might get you a success, but late to bed and early to work will get you a glory.
Amit Kalantri
#34. The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.
Terrell Davis
#35. Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams
#36. My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
Lee Atwater
#38. I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.
Craig Finn
#39. To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
Juliana Hatfield
#40. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#41. I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.
Matt Mickiewicz
#42. Wherever you are - it's too early to draw a conclusion. You may be down, but you're not done. Today's defeat could be tomorrow's gold.
Joe Jordan
#43. I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.
Charlie Munger
#44. Farewell to Kentucky and our agreeable vices. We go to bed early, but because of whiskey seldom with a clear head. We are fond of string beans and thin slices of salty ham. When I left home my brother said: It will be wonderful if you make a success of life, then you can follow the races. Farewell
Elizabeth Hardwick
#45. Failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important.
Amanda Lang
#46. I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.
Moss Hart
#47. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.
Kristin Hannah
#48. The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#49. One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.
Gary Hamel
#50. My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
#51. For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
Akshay Kumar
#52. I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.
Julie Andrews
#53. All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Kenneth Clark
#54. People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#55. For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.
Paul Harvey
#57. The key to success in life is getting up early.
Jenni Rivera
#58. Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.
Katherine Anne Porter
#59. I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.
Agatha Christie
#60. Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.
Ari Gold
#61. My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
Raymond Loewy
#62. Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
Larry Craig
#63. I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.
Azim Premji
#64. Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.
Archibald Marwizi
#65. It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.
Washington Irving
#66. The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.
Marilyn Jager Adams
#67. As early as 1999, Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ("Bud") Selig had taken to calling the Oakland A's success "an aberration," but that was less an explanation than an excuse not to grapple with the question: how'd they do it? What was their secret?
Michael Lewis
#68. It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success.
Debasish Mridha
#69. I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
John Lescroart
#70. If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#71. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#72. As parents, the most important thing we can do
is read to our children early and often. Reading
is the path to success in school and life. When
children learn to love books, they learn to love
learning.
Laura Bush
#73. How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Harold Ramis
#74. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
Charlie Munger
#75. Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.
Anthony Liccione
#76. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
#77. I sang in the coffee houses ... in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.
Judy Collins
#78. You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early ... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions in the Ardennes Forest, the site of their original Blitzkrieg success against the French in 1940.
Saul David
#80. Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.
Ronald Reagan
#81. People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life.
Paul Downs Colaizzo
#82. I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.
Casey Nicholaw
#83. Early identification of your God-given abilities helps you to become happier and successful earlier in life.
Maxine Phillips
#84. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty
Alison Wong
#85. In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success.
Mike Myers
#86. Everybody achieves success in life - a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards
Dag Ekeberg
#88. My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
Herbert Read
#89. Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.
Win Ng
#90. We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
Alan Cohen
#91. We all thrive to achieve something. Few fails early; many wins late. Why is struggle compared when success is overrated?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#92. And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something
David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
#93. He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Craig Ferguson
#94. I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.
Steve Martin
#95. When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
David Nicholls
#96. In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
John Caudwell
