Successful Quotes

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

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

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

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.

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.