Kwasi Kwarteng Quotes

Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

People are looking for a way to tear down anyone who is successful in any arena. That's the way fans are.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

I don't mind not being President; I just mind that someone else is.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

People are always ready to pull you down.

There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

People want you to fail.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.