„If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.“

— Theodore Roosevelt

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„Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.“
— Albert Einstein
„A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.“
— Bob Dylan
„Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.“
— Albert Einstein
„People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.“
— Albert Einstein
„The successful man will profit from his mistakes andtry again in a different way.“
— Dale Carnegie
„And so you have to be practical in asking yourself how can you achieve the goals of equality and inclusion, but also recognize that the market system produces a lot of wealth and goods and services. And it also gives individuals freedom because they have initiative. And so you don't have to be rigid in saying it’s either this or that, you can say -- depending on the problem you're trying to solve, depending on the social issues that you're trying to address what works. And I think that what you’ll find is that the most successful societies, the most successful economies are ones that are rooted in a market-based system, but also recognize that a market does not work by itself. It has to have a social and moral and ethical and community basis, and there has to be inclusion. Otherwise it’s not stable. And it’s up to you -- whether you're in business or in academia or the nonprofit sector, whatever you're doing -- to create new forms that are adapted to the new conditions that we live in today.“
— Barack Obama