Successful Quotes

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

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.