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"There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success."

Wilbur Smith on Success

More quotes about Success

  • "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

    Bill Cosby on Success

  • "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

    Swami Vivekananda on Success

  • "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

    Bruce Lee on Success

  • "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

    David Brinkley on Success

  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

    Winston Churchill on Success

More quotes by Wilbur Smith

  • "The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off."

  • "I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience."

  • "I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books."

  • "I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived."

  • "I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best."

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