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I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

I don't want to be a celebrity who promotes skinniness to be successful.

Of course I owe so much of my success to my parents.

Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.

Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.

In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

I don't agree that we have to win the Champions League to be a success.

Unlike Washington, the California legislature has proved that cooperation is both possible and essential to successful policymaking, while stubborn absolutism will have you trailing head lice in popularity polls.

I guess Tom Cruise - everything he does, everything he touches, is kind of a success.

People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

California has everything it needs to be successful: world-class universities, pioneering innovators, diverse cultures, vast resources and people working hard to build a better future.

I think the most important thing is to keep going and fighting to be in a good position. Like many clubs say, to be in the top four is a massive success.