Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Obama

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

Michelle Obama

Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Michael Porter

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael Phelps

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Michael LeBoeuf

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Michael Lee-Chin

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Sherman Alexie

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Seth Berkley

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

Scott Hamilton

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Scott Caan

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Seth Godin

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Seth Godin

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Seth Godin

I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

Seth Godin

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

Seth Godin

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Seth Godin

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Seth Godin

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Seth Godin

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Seth Godin

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Seth Godin

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Seth Godin

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Tom Cruise

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

Tom Cruise

I just want to help people. I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

Tito Vilanova

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Sol LeWitt

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Sol LeWitt

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

Snoop Dogg

That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.

Socrates

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Meredith Brooks

I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

Mel Carnahan

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.