Success Trap Quotes

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Once we become wealthy, we tend to move away from what made us wealthy.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

Control success before it controls you.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Woe, to think about having success in your pocket.

To be honest I would like to do more movies, I've been a victim of my own success in that sense, as if you have a TV character that really endures, it's really hard to get into film.

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.