Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

Sam Altman

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

Sam Altman

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

Saffron Burrows

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Ruth Handler

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

Ruth Gordon

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Walter Matthau

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

William Makepeace Thackeray

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Zig Ziglar

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

Zig Ziglar

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Zig Ziglar

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Zig Ziglar

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Zig Ziglar

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

Zig Ziglar

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

Zig Ziglar

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Zig Ziglar

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

Zell Miller

Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

In some ways it was a successful season, but we didn't get what we wanted,

I'm going to have a long and successful career.

Neale Donald Walsch

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Nancy Sinatra

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Morgan Freeman

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Morgan Freeman

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Milan Kundera

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Marat Safin

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

Joseph Addison

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Joseph Addison

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Joseph Addison

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.