Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.

Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.

There are millions of ways to make millions of dollars legally.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.

Being the first to start or leave does not necessarily mean that you will be the first to finish or arrive. Or that you will finish or arrive.