Quotes

Commercial success is very important. That is what gives you the option to choose and decide what you would like to do.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

You can't sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful at it.

I credit all of my life's successes to my ability to 'Stay Hyped.'

Trump's biggest success in his first term has been his foreign policy agenda.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.

There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.

Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.

When it comes to building your business and developing a powerful network, you'll want to develop a reputation as someone who highlights others. Not only does this give credit where credit is due, it also communicates that you're secure with your success and have the ability to promote others in your industry.

The ability to network successfully can be one of the greatest assets in business. It allows some people to find incredible opportunities, while others just watch from the sidelines.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

Successful people often enjoy telling their story.