Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naveen Jain

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

Naveen Jain

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Mother Teresa

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Mother Teresa

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Mother Teresa

We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful,

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

Mike Krzyzewski

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Pedro Almodovar

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Radcliffe

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Paula White

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!

Peter Thiel

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Peter Thiel

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task to figure out what that future history will be.

Peter Thiel

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

Peter Thiel

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Terry Gilliam

I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

Terry Eagleton

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Randall Munroe

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Shania Twain

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

Shania Twain

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Scarlett Pomers

You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

Sia Furler

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Shirley Bassey

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Lesley Garrett

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Lee Kuan Yew

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

Marcia Angell

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Simon Baker

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Shia LaBeouf

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

Sheryl Sandberg

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.