Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin O'Leary

I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

Kerry Bishe

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

Mark Twain

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Mary Burke

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

Martin Gardner

When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.

Martin Filler

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

Mark McKinnon

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

Mark Frauenfelder

To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.

Mario Puzo

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

Niklas Zennstrom

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

Niklas Zennstrom

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

Nikki Giovanni

There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

Nick Nolte

Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.

Nick Saban

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

Matt Cameron

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

Matt Bomer

I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected people, made them laugh or cry. To me, that was more important than having my face on some billboard.

Matt Damon

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

Matt Damon

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

Mary McCarthy

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Marva Collins

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Marva Collins

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Mark Twain

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Ne-Yo

If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

Natan Sharansky

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Mitch Daniels

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Martin Lawrence

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.