Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar de la Renta

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Orson Welles

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Orison Swett Marden

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit.

Ellen Glasgow

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Ellen Glasgow

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eric Schmidt

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something,

Any time you have success in a situation, you have confidence.

It showed a little more success than I had expected.

Wayne Hale

It's been an outstandingly successful mission. We accomplished everything that we set out to do and more.

Wayne Hale

It's been an outstandingly successful mission, ... We accomplished everything that we set out to do and more.

It's been the least successful year of his presidency.

It's been challenging, but you do what you have to to make it a successful year.

Rod Stewart

I've had tremendous success ... I'm very lucky,

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Alan Cohen

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Alan Cohen

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

Pierre Omidyar

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

Pierre Omidyar

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

Pierre Omidyar

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

Pierre Omidyar

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

NeNe Leakes

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

NeNe Leakes

Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.

Nelson Mandela

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.