Successful Quotes
One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.
The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.
Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?
Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever
In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.
I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.
Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.
Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.
If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.
But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.
Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.