“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsMenWantWritingChildrenStillsMatterKidsDiesCoursesChanceSuccessfulTakenHe ManHigherTenSuicideListsNineCommitBelovedNervesInfluentialAnthology Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.” PeopleLooksSeemsSuccessfulLuckyLuckCommitConfusedSuccessful People Author:Grant Cardone
“Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.” IfsMayMatterSchoolCertainPassionOpportunityPathSuccessfulAdvantageWho You AreCommitBeing SuccessfulUp To YouBusiness School Author:Dan Rosensweig
“No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.” MenEvilResultsVirtueSuccessfulAdvantageSakeCommittedPursuitCommitWickedVirtuousHeroism Author:Benjamin Haydon
“But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.” PeopleWellsChildrenBookPoliticalOpportunityPoliticsSuccessfulEconomicCrimeCreatingConnectedCommitWealthyCrookedImpunityOnly ChildBecoming Successful Book:Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century Source: Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century
“I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.” PeopleThinkingWantHas BeensFightingGoalSupportSuccessfulShareCrimeSeriousOrganizationCommitComplimentLegislationCampusFraternityProsecutionCounterproductiveSorority Author:Claire McCaskill