Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

Woe, to think about having success in your pocket.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

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

Of all spells that could be cast on a nation, that of believing itself invincible was perhaps the one most profitable broken …

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.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.

It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.