Alexander Pope Quotes

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

We are all striving to acquire riches of honor or power, or some other object, whose possession is to realize the day dreams of our imaginations; and the aggregate of these efforts constitutes the advance of our society.

A slave dreams of freedom, a free man dreams of wealth, the wealthy dream of power, and the powerful dream of freedom.