How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
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.
And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
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.
I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired.
If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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 don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.