Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Andrews

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Douglas Adams

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Donald Rumsfeld

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Andie MacDowell

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Amos Bronson Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Anne Sweeney

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Angela Merkel

I want us to be able to preserve our level of prosperity. We must constantly remind ourselves that Germany has been eating into its capital. It is only through successful management that we can once again secure our foundation of prosperity and social security.

Althea Gibson

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Allison Williams

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Anne Rice

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Anna Garlin Spencer

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Anna Eshoo

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

Anita Defrantz

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

Andrew Tan

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

Andrew Tobias

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

Andrew Sullivan

The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

Clayton Christensen

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

Clayton Christensen

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.

Clayton Christensen

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

Clayton Christensen

It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.

Claire Danes

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no disinfectant like success.

Daniel Kahneman

Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

Daniel Kahneman

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

Cullen Hightower

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Conrad Hilton

Success ... seems to be connected with action. ...

Conrad Black

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Clint Eastwood

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

Danny Masterson

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

Danny Glover

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

Danny Glover

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.