The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
When success comes people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
My success and my misfortunes the bright and the dark days I have gone through everything has proved to me that in this world either physical or moral good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
When it comes to success there are no shortcuts.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved not because it is sought after.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand but in playing a poor hand well.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
To many a man and sometimes to a youth there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.