All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." Herbert Kaufman

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

Set goals in your life and never lose sight of them (Keep focused). Your goals will motivate your ambition for success.

Luck certainly has a lot to do with any kind of success. But on the other hand, this is a business in which relationships are very important. And also there is oft times a degree of complexity to those relationships. She was always able to represent my point of a view in a way that made it palatable to whoever she was dealing with.