Quotes

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

For a start-up company, it is all about the religion of the product's excellence - the success of the product - while for a large corporation, it is the brand. We chose to maintain our start-up image.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.

I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Someone accused me of having 'gone off the rails' but I've never been on them hence the success and happiness I enjoy on a daily basis.

I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird transitional period between having some success doing weird stuff and not being eccentric yet. I'm in limbo.

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

For me, being successful meant not having to do my laundry at a laundromat and not having a second job.

You don't just become a success overnight.

What has been so great out of all of the success is that I inspired so many people to take up ventriloquism, especially little kids.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

You want to have individual success like anybody else, but as long as we win, it doesn't matter.

I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.