Quotes about success
successful shots knows
Ben Affleck I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
successful effort balance
Ben Affleck But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.
successful finding-yourself trying
Ben Affleck The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
successful giving trying
Ben Affleck (I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
success nice women
Barbara Walters Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
successful tyrants revolution
Barbara Tuchman Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
success congratulations ice-cream
Barbra Streisand Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
successful technology creating
Bob Iger I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.
successful funny-marriage married
Bob Hope Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.
successful class use
Bjarne Stroustrup Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful
successful two people
Bill Frist Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
success basketball player
Bill Gates Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
success technology car
Bill Gates If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
success suffering poor
Bill Gates We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
success marketing network-marketing
Bill Gates If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.
success money business
Bill Gates I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
success two reason
Betty Grable I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
successful years two
Betty Dodson When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!
success jealousy business
Bette Midler The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
successful microsoft committed
Bill Gates Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
success people enjoy
Bill Gates Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
success leadership work
Bill Gates The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.
success people empowering
Bill Gates I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
success children school
Bill Gates Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
success engineering ideas
Bill Gates The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
success teacher best-teacher
Bill Gates The best teacher is very interactive.
success philanthropy should
Bill Gates Philanthropy should be voluntary.
success political migration
Bill Gates I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
success country thinking
Bill Gates I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.
success responsibility unexpected
Bill Gates There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.
success sacrifice people
Bill Gates The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
success book reading
Bill Gates Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.