But treason is not owned when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

-Dryden,John
  The Medal, l.207^8.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful isgood. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

-Eco, Umberto
  In the International Herald Tribune,14 Dec.

To be successful in business, you should produce something cheap, habit-forming, and consumed by use.

-Gillette, King Camp
Attributed.

To be a successful father, there's oneabsoluterule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
Quoted in  A E Hotchner Papa Hemingway (1966), pt.2, ch.5.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

-Hitchcock, SirAlfred Joseph
Quoted in Fran c° ois Truffaut Hitchcock (1968).

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in  Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

   Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueller or more vain than a failed artist.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  Fear of Flying, ch.9.

   Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we aretooluckyor toosuccessfulor toopretty, ourmisery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  How To SaveYour Own Life.

   It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love† It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Autobiography, ch.12.