Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Bachman

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Thomas Jefferson

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Robert Holden

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

Suzy Kassem

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

Tony Robbins

Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Tony Robbins

Success without fulfillment is failure.

Tony Robbins

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Tony Robbins

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

Tony Robbins

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Tony Robbins

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Tony Robbins

You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.

Tony Robbins

Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.

Tony Robbins

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Tony Bennett

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

Tony Abbott

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader

Tom Rath

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

Tom Petty

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Richard Branson

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Richard Branson

Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.

Richard Branson

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

Richard Branson

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Richard Branson

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

Richard Branson

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Richard Branson

Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.

Richard Branson

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

Richard Branson

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

Richard Branson

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

Richard Branson

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

Richard Branson

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

Richard Branson

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Richard Branson

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

Richard Branson

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Richard Branson

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.