Quotes

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

Running a fashion business takes the heart of a good gambler. You're always dealing with new things. And there's no guarantee that anything new is going to be successful.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

Southwest isn't a 'This is my job, that's your job' kind of company. Being successful is our job, and we're willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that.

Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?

Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.

Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.

Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore.

For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.

We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.