Success will ruin your life.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Most things in here don't react well to bullets.
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.