The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.