Top 100 Quotes About Successful Men
#1. In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
Steve Pavlina
#2. I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'
Charles M. Schwab
#3. 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
#4. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.
Napoleon Hill
#5. CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno
#6. We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.
Amen Muffler
#7. I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.
Robinson Jeffers
#8. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
#9. 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
#10. But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once
my father had six
and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa.
Dave Eggers
#11. One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.
Charles M. Schwab
#12. I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.
Napoleon Hill
#13. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
Orison Swett Marden
#14. [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#15. 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
#16. Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
Brian Tracy
#17. The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.
Walter Russell
#18. Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.
Carol Roth
#19. Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
Abdul Kalam
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Successful men and women train their minds to think only about what they want to happen in their lives.
Tommy Newberry
#23. Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
Brian Tracy
#24. To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.' 'Pretty
Thomas Hardy
#25. Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
Napoleon Hill
#26. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.
Cathie Black
#27. Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
Storm Jameson
#28. The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
Grenville Kleiser
#29. This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.
Will Carling
#30. Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton
#31. Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
#32. The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Joseph Jacobs
#33. And when one of our successful men had what he needed or wanted, he reassumed his virtue as easily as changing his shirt, and for all one could see, he took no hurt from his derelictions, always assuming that he didn't get caught.
John Steinbeck
#34. Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.
Napoleon Hill
#35. Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
Patti Stanger
#36. The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence.
Aldous Huxley
#37. Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
#38. Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
Hanna Rosin
#39. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.
Stephanie Allain
#40. It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.
Dwight L. Moody
#41. Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
Albert Einstein
#42. My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
Jane Fonda
#43. Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms ... one man was the government of the United States ... Lincoln was a great dictator ... This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.
Clinton Rossiter
#44. You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'
Christina Hendricks
#45. Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.
Walter E. Williams
#46. The highest civilizations
the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms
are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.
Pearl S. Buck
#47. Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.
Jon Jones
#49. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#50. Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.
Marcus Garvey
#51. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.
Archie Lee
#52. I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.
Teri Hatcher
#53. Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
Charles Spurgeon
#54. 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
#55. Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.
George Gissing
#56. Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful
William Arthur Ward
#58. We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.
Darren Hardy
#60. Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
#61. To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.
Dustin Hoffman
#62. Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.
Joseph Sugarman
#63. I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.
Sheryl Sandberg
#64. I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey
#65. Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
Sheryl Sandberg
#66. I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.
Rodney Dangerfield
#67. The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
Harvey MacKay
#68. Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
John Perkins
#69. The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
William Lyon Phelps
#70. Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.
Hans F. Sennholz
#71. People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.
Missy Elliot
#72. I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.
Camille Paglia
#73. Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
Ian K. Smith
#74. Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#75. The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
Theodore Roosevelt
#76. Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
Will Rogers
#77. Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
#78. I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.
Derek Ridgers
#79. In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.
Louis Auchincloss
#80. I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.
Susan Stroman
#81. Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.
Norman Mailer
#82. Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.
Benjamin Disraeli
#83. Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.
Peter York
#84. I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#85. People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man ... I'm the boss.
Lily Allen
#86. Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#87. A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#88. All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
Charles M. Schwab
#89. At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.
Aziz Ansari
#90. If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.
Theodore Roosevelt
#91. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#92. Behind every successful woman are several confused men who give her something to make fun of.
Sarah Miller
#93. A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.
Habeeb Akande
#94. Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
#95. There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Zi
#96. Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.
P. J. O'Rourke
#97. The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.
Wallace D. Wattles
#98. If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
Carlos Santana
#99. Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.
Marcus Aurelius
#100. It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
Shirley Bassey
