Success Quotes - Page 84

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

What helps people, helps business.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

True success is obeying God.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.

When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.

Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you're going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.

It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.