"Nothing fails like success."
Nice one Sailorman! Is this yours?
A credo for a doomer like me.
i think dubya and his neocon handlers were intoxicated" with bush's daddys success
I don't know who originated "Nothing fails like" success, but I saw it in a Peter Drucker book some thirty years ago.

Another nice variation is:
Nothing fails like excess.

Could be the motto of our wasteful "happy motoring" society in the U.S.