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“Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.”
As quoted in "Ten Jack-Offs" in The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983) by Charles Bukowski
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Wallace Stevens 278
American poet 1879–1955Related quotes
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
No known source; it appears to be a paraphrase of the last sentence of Einstein's "An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man". Earliest known attribution is in the Washingon Afro-American, AFRO Magazine Section, Sept 21, 1954, p. 2 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I8slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6_QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4494,1273325
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“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
(1921–1989) American motivational speaker
Constantinos C. Markides
(1960) Cypriot business theorist
Source: Game-Changing Strategies, 2013, p. 67
“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
Alexander Graham Bell
(1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
Context: The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
“An ideal world can definitely be created with a pure mind and optimistic results.”
A. R. Rahman
(1966) Indian singer and composer
Superheavy, 16 December 2013, Official website of ARRahman http://www.arrahman.com/superheavy.aspx,
“Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.”
Georg Brandes
(1842–1927) Danish literature critic and scholar
Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 19
“In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; it obeyed the law of decreasing returns.”
Kevin Kelly
(1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Calvin Coolidge
(1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
Context: Yet Americans are not visionary, they are not sentimentalists. They want idealism, but they want it to be practical, they want it to produce results. It would be little use to try to convince them of the soundness and righteousness of their institutions, if they could not see that they have been justified in the past history and the present condition of the people. They estimate the correctness of the principle by the success which they find in their own experience. They have faith but they want works.