George Bernard Shaw

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

When you’re successful, things have a momentum and you can’t tell if you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

I don’t think people get to be successful without ambition.

A lot of people don’t like to win. They actually don’t know how to win, and they don’t like to win because down deep inside they don’t want to win.

I measure success by how many people love me.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

My life is a success – I am a happy man.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Whenever I hear it can’t be done, I know I am close to success.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.