“The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.”

“If one takes the path of success, then one ends up either successful or unsuccessful, there is no third alternative.”

“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”

“On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.”

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”

“The difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset is the difference between stagnation and success.”

“The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.”

“I have had a larger responsibility of human lives than ever man or woman had before. And I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took an excuse. Yes, I do see the difference now between me and other men. When a disaster happens, I act and they make excuses.”

“He who reckons his own soul is successful; he who is heedless of it is unsuccessful.”