Successful Quotes
If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.
The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.
Remember that the headline and the appeals are ONE AND THE SAME. In successful ads, the appeal is almost always expressed in the headline.
My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.
Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.
If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.
Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.
To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.
The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change
Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.
Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.
Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.
Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.
Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.
If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look.
Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.
The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.