Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.
You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!
When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.
You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!
You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!