„Little Spain is a symbol of the first attempt of a successful Hispanic immigration process to the United States … Almost no one knows that there was a "Little Spain" in Manhattan, just like there's a "Little Italy."“

„If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.“

—  Alain de Botton Swiss writer 1969

„I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success“

—  Otto von Bismarck German statesman, Chancellor of Germany 1815 - 1898

A Spanish politician in a political meeting said it for the first time and attributed to Bismarck https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discusi%C3%B3n:Otto_von_Bismarck
Misattributed

„To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.“

—  Mason Cooley American academic 1927 - 2002

City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection (1992)

„This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be – and are – just as successfully employed elsewhere.“

—  Masaaki Imai Japanese business theorist and consultant 1930

„How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?“

—  Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915

„What the Russian autocrats and their supporters fear most is that the success of libertarian Socialism in Spain might prove to their blind followers that the much vaunted "necessity of dictatorship" is nothing but one vast fraud which in Russia has led to the despotism of Stalin“

—  Rudolf Rocker anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist 1873 - 1958

The Tragedy of Spain (1937)
Contexto: For two decades the supporters of Bolshevism have been hammering it into the masses that dictatorship is a vital necessity for the defense of the so-called proletarian interests against the assaults of counter-revolution and for paving the way for Socialism. They have not advanced the cause of Socialism by this propaganda, but have merely smoothed the way for Fascism in Italy, Germany and Austria by causing millions of people to forget that dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation. In Russia, the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat has not led to Socialism, but to the domination of a new bureaucracy over the proletariat and the whole people. …
What the Russian autocrats and their supporters fear most is that the success of libertarian Socialism in Spain might prove to their blind followers that the much vaunted "necessity of dictatorship" is nothing but one vast fraud which in Russia has led to the despotism of Stalin and is to serve today in Spain to help the counter-revolution to a victory over the revolution of the workers and the peasants.

„A successful attempt to express logical propositions by symbols, the laws of whose combinations should be founded upon the laws of the mental processes which they represent, would, so far, be a step towards a philosophical language.“

—  George Boole English mathematician, philosopher and logician 1815 - 1864

Fuente: 1840s, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, 1847, p. 5

„I’m a little bit highbrow and a little bit trashy…That’s what I think good storytelling is. If you can lure in an audience and have a good time with them, but also teach them what it’s like — to be a person of color, to be poor — that’s a success.“

—  Christopher Oscar Peña

On how he defines good storytelling in “San Jose’s Christopher Oscar Peña no longer ‘Insecure’ about work” https://www.sfchronicle.com/tv/article/San-Jose-s-Christopher-Oscar-Pe-a-no-longer-11297163.php in SF Gate (2017 Jul 18)

„I'm a little surprised that commercial success has arrived. I used to think that it was hopeless, that it would never happen.“

—  John Banville Irish writer 1945

Once More Admired Than Bought, A Writer Finally Basks in Success (1990)

„For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

„The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.“

—  Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924

First Inaugural Address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25831 (4 March 1913)
1910s

„This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Fuente: The Diary of a Young Girl

„And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage.“

—  Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Book VII, 7.68-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII

„Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom though failure. We get very little wisdom from success.“

—  John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947

Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn

„If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.“

—  Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986

"To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [Fervor de Buenos Aires] (1923)

„Often, firms that were successful start to fail after a successful CEO departs, largely because they spent little time mentoring the successor in making successful decisions. … I think we are seeing this play out at Apple at the moment …“

—  Rob Enderle American financial analyst 1954

Why Turnarounds Fail: Trump Edition http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/why-turnarounds-fail-trump-edition.html in IT Business Edge (2 February 2017)

„Not only has capitalism not entered into its final crisis anywhere in the world, but Fascism was first successful in marginally industrialized Italy—in a nation that had only begun its industrial development. Italian industrial capitalism was hardly at the end of its life cycle. It was at little more than its commencement. Moreover, subsequent movements elsewhere in Europe that have been characterized as fascist proved to 'have been most successful in mobilizing lower classes in underdeveloped… countries.“

—  A. James Gregor American political scientist 1929 - 2019

Fuente: Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism, (1979), pp. 18-19

„I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.“

—  Daniel Hannan British politician 1971

"The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?" https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-hannan-the-republic-will-survive-trump-but-will-the-republicans (3 September 2018), The Washington Examiner
2010s

„For years, we thought we are a sporting nation but we had little to show. In the last decade, India's sporting success has changed all that.“

—  Anil Kumble Former Indian cricketer 1970