Harvey Mackay Quotes

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I'm not saying I'm the best, but we the best.

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

Even if we achieve gigantic successes in our work, there is no reason whatsoever to feel conceited and arrogant. Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

I know I'm the best in the world.

I didn't think every day, 'I'm world champion, I'm world champion,' not at all.

I am not often proud.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Every time I win, I prove something: I'm the best guy in the world at what I do.

I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.