Quotes

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

There's really no secret to success. You make your own success.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.

If you're going somewhere, you want to go somewhere where you have a chance to have success.

No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.

For anyone that's reached the NFL, especially top picks, you just come from success.

My greatest success story has been my family.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.

My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession.

My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

I think that people who find themselves at executive level positions or get really successful forget that there is nothing they have done that wasn't the result of a lot of other peoples hard work.

I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.

My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so successful themselves.

Anybody that's intimidated by my success probably isn't the right person for me.

This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn't rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It's not about showing somebody that I'm successful. It's about having a wider breadth of option.

My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible.

The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'