It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I still have drive, but everything is relative.
Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.
Without losers, where would the winners be?
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
Melo has a chance to be a better player than me, for sure. I feel at the same age, he's better than me. In real time, I don't think he's better than me. But I'm the big brother so I'm always going to have that edge over him.
Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
The only way for a man to get ahead is to run faster than the fellow in front of him.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.
I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
