Successful Quotes

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.