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The key to WWE's success and longevity is that they are, as modern and as relevant as the company may be in modern social media and platforms and contemporary distribution, the company is still built around old-school promotion. Who are these two fighters? Why are they wrestling? And why should I pay to see it?

Shane Douglas's work in the first 11 months as The Franchise of ECW was so groundbreaking. He made people forget about his on-air persona in WCW and successfully reinvented himself as The Franchise in ECW.

I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.

Lara and I both had success in the amateurs, and we have continued to have successful professional careers.

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

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.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.