Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin O'Leary

I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

Mark Twain

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Judd Apatow

The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Lily Allen

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Lee Westwood

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Oprah Winfrey

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

Oliver Goldsmith

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Marc Benioff

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Kelly Clark

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Margaret Thatcher

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Margaret Thatcher

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Mark Twain

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Elias Canetti

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

B. C. Forbes

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Ashley Montagu

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Bernie Siegel

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Paul Tudor Jones

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Pindar

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

Pindar

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Pindar

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Pierre Bourdieu

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Paulo Coelho

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Phil Ochs

God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

Quentin Crisp

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Prince Philip

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.