Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

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

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

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.

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

I never resented anybody for being successful.

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.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

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.

People don't like success.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.