Beny Steinmetz Quotes

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

I never resented anybody for being successful.

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

I had flops, I had success.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I love winning. I don't like losing.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.

No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.