How To Be Successful Quotes

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.

We've done exactly what we've wanted. We never compromised to anyone and still managed to have a successful thing. I don't take that lightly. Yeah, we're really lucky to have had that.

Facebook is that successful guy you're supposed to want to date, but you can't keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don’t get that.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.