Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Jim Rohn

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Jim Rohn

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Jim Rohn

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

George Matthew Adams

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

George Lucas

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.

Ken Whisenhunt

Absolutely. I think it's a combination of just being comfortable with the system and trusting the guys. We've had some success with some things.

Brendan Shanahan

It's effective. It's not pretty hockey. That's what makes the trap successful you are able to clog it up.

A lot of teams that have had a lot of success get comfortable,

They have had a lot of success with it.

This has been a tremendously successful fundraising quarter.

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Denzel Washington

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Denis Waitley

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Carolyn Wells

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Chester Bennington

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Charles M. Schwab

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Charles Handy

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Madeleine Albright

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance.... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Camille Paglia

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

Bruno Tonioli

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Dick Costolo

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Benjamin Franklin

Success has ruined many a man.

Ben Affleck

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

Barbara Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Bill Frist

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.