Nothing recedes like success.
— Walter Winchell
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
— Walter Scott
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
— Walter Pater
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
— Walter Kirn
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
— Walter Chrysler
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
— Walter Alston
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
— W. Clement Stone
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.
— Vonda Shepard
We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
— Vivienne Westwood
My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.
— Vivek Wadhwa
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
If we can validate our scientific bets in the clinic, if we can bring valuable new treatments to patients that need them, that will be our ultimate measure of success.
— Vivek Ramaswamy
Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
— Virginia Foxx
There were a lot of players who gave me suggestions when I was young. At times, they were very good suggestions, and I took them seriously, applied them to my batting, and got success after that.
— Virender Sehwag
If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.
Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.
— Vint Cerf
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
— Walter Ulbricht
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
— Walter Martin
I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
— Walter Cronkite
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
— Walter Bagehot
Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!
— Walshy Fire
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what you want and take the steps to achieve it, even if that sometimes means playing gigs in tiny clubs.
What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.
— Vivienne Ming
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.
In my opinion, in addition to the success we have achieved in launching new Vants and in pursuing development of a variety of drugs, one of our most important achievements has been the growth of Roivant itself as a platform to support the efficient identification and advancement of medicines across all of the companies in the Roivant family.
I am really happy and ecstatic that 'Grand Masti' has been such a huge success.
— Vivek Oberoi
They succeed, because they think they can.
— Virgil
A youngster should know his game first. If he knows his game, he can modify it at the top level if required. But if he doesn't know his game, then it is difficult to get success at international level. You will get success occasionally but not regularly.
Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
— Vinod Khosla
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
— Walter Russell Mead
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
— Walter Lippmann
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
— Walter Annenberg
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
— W. C. Fields
Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.
Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.
I feel sorry for girls getting caught up in it and still thinking they have to define themselves and their success by being in a relationship, straight women, straight girls, by being in a heterosexual relationship or being in any relationship, as if that's in any way a mark of what kind of successful human being you are.
— Viv Albertine
Success is measured differently by different people.
— Virgil Goode
The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
— Virat Kohli
