Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

If you don't want competition, I think it means you're scared and you can get a little bit comfortable.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.

One of my biggest fears, in both my personal and business life, is residing too long in my comfort zone.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

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 stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.