"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed." ― Charles de Montesquieu Topic(s): Success More From Charles de Montesquieu "Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." "Peace is a natural effect of trade." "An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war." More In Success "Why be a man when you can be a success?"― Bertolt Brecht "Fame and success are very different things."― Enya "Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity."― M. Scott Peck