The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
Any time someone achieves success before they've earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
I became famous almost before I had a craft.
For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
To be premature is to be perfect
Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.
I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
Some young stars go a little too far too soon.
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
