The Of Success Quotes

I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.

It is important in life to turn adversity to success

Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

Money is a poor indicator of success.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

Self confidence is the ground stone of success

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

True success requires sacrifice.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

When intention is supported by effort, success follows.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek.

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

The true success is to labour.

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

The less you are like others, the less others will like you.

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.