Samuel Daniel Quotes

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Nothing recedes like success.

It all goes completely to your head.

Great good fortune coming suddenly and unexpectedly tends to make a people insolent

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.