Moby Quotes

Sometimes, you can get too big when you feel too good.

Success can be a horrible teacher.

Success is a poor teacher

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

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

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

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.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

If you keep winning, you don't know the areas you've to work hard.

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.

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.