Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Access to the national dividend is usually to be had only on condition of some productive service previously rendered or of some product previously sold. This condition is, in this case, not yet fulfilled. It will be fulfilled only after the successful completion of the new combinations. Hence this credit will in the meantime affect the price level.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Joni Mitchell

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

Jonathan Tisch

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

Jonathan Swift

Every dog must have his day.

Jonathan Swift

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Kevin Spacey

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

Kevin Spacey

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

Kevin Bacon

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

Kevin Bacon

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.

Narendra Modi

BJP is doing "gathbandhan". Congress is doing "brashtbandhan" and the criminals are doing "lathbandhan". Our politics is about coalitions. Every coalition where the BJP is part of as leaders, has been successful.

Napoleon Hill

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

Napoleon Hill

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Napoleon Hill

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

Napoleon Hill

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

John Adams

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Jack Welch

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Jack Welch

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Harvey Mackay

You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

Harvey Mackay

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.

Harvey Mackay

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

Harvey Mackay

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

Harvey Mackay

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

Harvey Mackay

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Harvey Mackay

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

James Allen

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

James Anthony Froude

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

Jacoby Shaddix

It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

Henry A. Kissinger

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.