The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
How does one measure the success of a museum?
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.