Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Louis Cole

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Edwin Land

The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Impatience never commanded success.

Bill Murray

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

Benjamin Jowett

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Benjamin Haydon

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Bernard Baruch

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

Bernard Baruch

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Carolyn Wells

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Charles Dudley Warner

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Chester Bennington

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Nothing succeeds so well as success.

Charles M. Schwab

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Charles M. Schwab

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

Charles M. Schwab

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Charles Handy

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Bob Parsons

When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because for the longest time, I have said that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass... and, by god, last week they went in and looked for it. They didn't find it, so now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words Bush, operation, and successful in the same sentence.

Bill Ackman

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

Bill Watterson

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Bob Iger

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.