Success consists in being successful not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace but there's no palace till it's built.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion dedication hard work and being in the right place at the right time.

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

There's more to life than success and if you can try to be more well-rounded you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

I always think when there's stuff that people don't like I always say that if I have another success I'll enjoy it more but you don't really.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had there's been very little critical review of my work which is pretty fascinating.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries in Catholic countries a successful person is a sinner.