This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.
Lou Holtz, fully Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz
I have never heard a successful man or woman get up and say, "I owe my success to drugs and alcohol."
M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.
Ludwig von Mises, fully Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Action | Attainment | Cooperation | Means | Success |
Margaret Thatcher, fully Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, née Roberts
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has ben shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.
Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure.
Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of talent; 3) The influence of example; 4) The joy of origination; 5) The dignity of simplicity; 6) The success of perseverance... More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.
Dignity | Improvement | Influence | Joy | Obligation | Pleasure | Power | Success | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Worth | Value |
Education, whether for success or failure, is never finished. Building and sustaining the settings in which individuals can grow and unfold, not "kept in their place," but empowered to become all they can be, is not the only task of parents and teachers, but the basis of management and political leadership--and simple friendship.
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
Focusing, planning and working towards your success daily will ultimately give you the edge to see your success come to fruition. Give it all you can and your victory will happen!
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
If you're in sales, putting yourself in the other person's shoes should be an automatic reaction. But instead of focusing on how closing the sales will benefit the customer, too many sales people are focusing on the commission they'll get. This in terms of what's good for the other person, and success will seek you out.
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
The real success of our personal lives and businesses can best be measured by the relationships we have with the people most dear to us - our family and friends. If we fail in this aspect of our lives, no matter how vast our worldly possessions or how high we climb, we will have achieved very little.
Family | People | Possessions | Success | Will |
The real demon is success – the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
Success |
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
Our success is much, much deeper than just dollars and cents and buildings and assets. The real success of our Company is measured in the lives that have been touched and given hope!
Success |
Max DePree, alternatively De Pree or Depree
I realize that not everything can be measured—mystery, beauty, the sweep of a rainbow, the breadth of human potential. Though failure is a reality and sometimes a consequence of measurement, continual success probably means our bar is too low or our tape too short.