Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Pentland

Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Harrison Ford

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

Guy Laliberte

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Guy Kawasaki

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

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.

Jack Canfield

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

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,

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.

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.

Carla Gugino

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

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 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.

Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

Graham Greene

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Giuliana Sgrena

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Howie Mandel

When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

Jennifer Aniston

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Gertrude Stein

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning ...

Jeremy Renner

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

George H. W. Bush

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

Harold Bloom

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Howard Stern

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

Hugh Laurie

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

Hugh Jackman

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

Gloria Steinem

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

J. P. Morgan

I made a fortune getting out too soon.