Mark Twain Success Quotations

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.