Cost of Success Quotes

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Motor sport is very expensive. It's unfortunate, because you see so much talent that never makes it to the top due to the lack of financial support.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

For every victory there is a price.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Big movies are fun and it's great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

You're damned in success a little bit.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Even victors are by victories undone.

When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.