Success Quote by Dwight Morrow

Politics loves a miracle it can monetize. Morrow’s line skewers the cheap temptation to treat good luck as proof of virtue: if you pose for photos in the rain, you’re implicitly volunteering to take the heat when the skies dry up. It’s a tight little boomerang of accountability, delivered with the calm tone of a businessman who’s watched too many people confuse correlation with competence.

The intent is practical, almost managerial: don’t overclaim. In markets and in governance, outcomes are a messy mix of skill, timing, and forces no one controls. Taking credit for the “rain” isn’t just annoying; it’s a strategic error. You raise expectations, you narrow the story of causality around yourself, and you hand your opponents a ready-made narrative for the inevitable downturn. If you’re the author of prosperity, you become the author of scarcity.

The subtext is even sharper: political messaging isn’t a neutral report card, it’s a wager. Every victory lap writes a contract with the public about who controls what. Morrow is warning that propaganda has a predictable cost, because it trains voters to demand coherence from a chaotic world. The same audience that applauds the sunny press release will later want a villain when conditions change.

Contextually, Morrow operated in a period when modern public relations, mass media, and corporate-style confidence were becoming central to political life. His quote reads like an early memo on reputational risk: credit is leverage, but it’s also liability.