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We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.

It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you're under pressure to have success.

People who look at Apple's success and think we look at it as, 'Okay, great, we're done,' don't appreciate what's really going on here.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.

That's the key to becoming successful in this industry: to dare and to not be afraid.

People crave fame too much, they don't write their own songs, they just look pretty. That is sending wrong signals to kids. You should crave success and not fame.

I want to be remembered. I'm not saying having the biggest selling single, you need that, but it helps. I want to be successful.

Even though 'La La La' was a massive success, you don't want to take it for granted.

I'm ready for what comes with success. It's part of the job. But I'm not a controversial person. Like I don't got a lot of controversy around me.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.