Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Dimon

At Travelers, we were much more opportunistic. It was very successful, but it wasn't an integrated financial services company. We had a property casualty company, a life company, a brokerage company. We were a financial conglomerate. It wasn't a unified, coordinated strategy of any sort. When it merged with Citi, that became a big issue; Citi, at that time, wasn't yet a fully integrated, coordinated company.

Jamie Dimon

Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it,

Richard G. Scott

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

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.

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.

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.

Ben Affleck

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

Barbara Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barry Zito

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Banksy

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Diane Ackerman

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

Desi Arnaz

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Daniel Goleman

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Billy Connolly

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

Boy George

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

Bonnie Bassler

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Bruce Feiler

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Branford Marsalis

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Branford Marsalis

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

Branford Marsalis

Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.

Bonnie Raitt

One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

Bruce Lee

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Brooke Shields

It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

Brooke Shields

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

Edmund Hillary

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

Denis Waitley

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Deborah Kerr

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

Dick Costolo

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.