Successful Quotes

Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there.

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful.

The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

When you actually get successful, if you became a recognized director, people would let you come up with an idea for a video and they would let you do it.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.

You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.

People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

[I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.

Successful villany is called virtue.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?