Successful Quotes - Page 86

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful. But I'm an older guy who is on his way out so they brought me in as a consultant for the new, up-and-coming CEO. I'm here for him.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

Embrace what you don`t know

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It’s a good lesson, isn’t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.

Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.

If a woman was successful, she wasn't helping other women.

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Australian coal sector will be a center of prosperity and growth; if it's not successful then it won't be. I think in the long run it's as simple as that.