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A simple way to wish people well is to write:

` ` 成功【せいこう】を祈【いの】ります。 ` ` ` Praying on success. `  
` Wishing for your success. ` ` `

However, in English at least, it has an implication that someone is not
successful already. This might be bad if they are already quite accomplished.
How can we write it so that it wishes for their future commercial/professional
success but does not have the negative implication that they are not
successful already?

The below is one attempt: wishing that success continues (続行【ぞっこう】する):

` ` 成功【せいこう】を続行【ぞっこう】するように祈【いの】ります。 ` ` ` Praying on the continuation of
success. `  
` Wishing for your continued success. ` ` `

Note the ように construction: when we pray for a verb, it seems we nominalise
with ように, hence 続行【ぞっこう】するように祈【いの】ります.

How close is the above to communicating the intended meaning?
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"Wishing for your continued success..." -- a subtlety
Just a suggestion and not trying to be impertinent, but Japanese already has
lots of "kimarimonku" (set phrases), so rather than trying to invent your own,
why not just use the existing ones. For example,

> 貴殿【きでん】のますますのご活躍【かつやく】をお祈【いの】り申【もう】し上【あ】げます

I would type out more of these but you can just look on a web site or an
etiquette book and find lots more. For example, [this
website](http://reibunshu.net/01/home.html) has phrases for business letters,
or [here are some ideas for
books](https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9+%E6%96%87%E7%AB%A0&__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&ref=nb_sb_noss_2).
There are lots more of these, I don't have specific recommendations.

(Thanks to naruto in the comments for the suggested phrase.)
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