Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Kawasaki

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

Guy Kawasaki

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Greg Fitzsimmons

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Gerry Spence

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gwen Stefani

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

Jack Canfield

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

Jack Canfield

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

J. J. Abrams

It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

Ilham Aliyev

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections,

Jack Nicklaus

Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Whitney makes her luck. She's been here every day working, and all of that success is earned.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Jean de la Bruyere

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Jay-Z

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Carlisle Floyd

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Carla Gugino

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

Carla Gugino

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

Jane Rule

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Jane Levy

When I make a movie, I just make the movie. I don't think about the success of it. If it becomes successful, that's an amazing treat. If it doesn't, you had a great time making it and you learned from it, and then you make a new thing.

Ethan Hawke

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

Ernst Mayr

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

Christina Ricci

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Christina Aguilera

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

Chris Martin

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

Chris Gardner

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Chris Hadfield

Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.

Herman Melville

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.