Quotes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career.

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

I think for anyone that plays the sport of football, when we find success, it just becomes very fun.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

I want to become so successful that if I wanna fart on a track, I can, and it will sell.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

It wasn't conscious, but I'm glad I've had a slow and steady career path. I wanted to develop my style, and I wanted to be the one making the decisions. Sometimes, when you become a success quickly, those decisions are out of your control.

I want to be a successful landlord. I like real estate.

Success is overwhelming.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

I'm glad I had to wait until my 40s for success. I was not a mature young man and would probably have gone off the rails.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.