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Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

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.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Success will ruin your life.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.