Non-Traditional Success Quotes

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.

If one person did one thing to be successful, that doesn't necessarily mean that's your story, too.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

I'm very creative - making music, making puppets, that's my thing - but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me.

You don't necessarily have to have your movie made to have success.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.