Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Rudyard Kipling

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudy Giuliani

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Samuel Johnson

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Samuel Johnson

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Sam Waterston

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

Sam Walton

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

Sam Walton

The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want

Sam Walton

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Sam Walton

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Sam Walton

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.

Sam Walton

The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.

Sam Walton

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Sam Altman

Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

Sam Altman

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

Sam Altman

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

Sam Altman

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

Sam Altman

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

Saffron Burrows

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Ruth Handler

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

Ruth Graham

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

Ruth Gordon

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Rumer Godden

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Ronald Reagan

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

William Hazlitt

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

William E. Gladstone

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Wendell Berry

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.

Walter Matthau

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

Walter Russell Mead

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.