Successful Quotes

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.