How To Be Successful Quotes

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.

It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

The successful writer listens to himself.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Successful innovations become conventions.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.