Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Henry Ford

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Henry Ford

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Helen Reddy

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

Helen Mirren

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Henry Ward Beecher

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Henry Cisneros

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Henry Flynt

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Henry Cloud

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

Henry Fielding

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Helen Thomas

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Gustave Flaubert

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gordon Ramsay

Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

John Dryden

The greater part performed achieves the less.

John Masefield

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

John Madden

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

John Lasseter

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

Jimmy Chamberlin

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Jimmy Carr

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

Jim Leach

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Jim Lovell

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Jim Shaw

I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.

Jim Rohn

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

Jim Rohn

Successful people are action oriented.

Jim Rohn

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

Jim Rohn

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'