Success Trap Quotes

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Once we become wealthy, we tend to move away from what made us wealthy.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.

Control success before it controls you.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Woe, to think about having success in your pocket.

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing.