“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

“If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.”

“We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want.”

“If you want to be successful you must look successful. ”

“Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person…Yourself.”

“Reading more books will only confuse you more and you will be dreaming about success instead of becoming successful yourself.”

“Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want.”

“To be a successful state, we have to nurture successful children.”

“I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.”

“Often, firms that were successful start to fail after a successful CEO departs, largely because they spent little time mentoring the successor in making successful decisions. … I think we are seeing this play out at Apple at the moment …”