"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." ― Benjamin Disraeli Topic(s): Success Tags: secret, success More From Benjamin Disraeli "Great countries are those that produce great people." "We cannot learn men from books." "Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor." More In Success "My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."― Herbert Read "In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity."― Paulo Coelho "I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure."― Alan Rickman