Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Iacocca

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Laurie David

A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.

Laurie Colwin

Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

Laura Bell Bundy

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

LaToya Jackson

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

Laura Bush

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

Larry Bird

Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

L. Ron Hubbard

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

L. Ron Hubbard

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

L. Ron Hubbard

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Terry Wogan

People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Thomas A. Edison

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Thomas A. Edison

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Thomas A. Edison

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Thomas A. Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Thomas A. Edison

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Simon Baker

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Shia LaBeouf

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

Sheryl Sandberg

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

Sheryl Sandberg

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Sheryl Sandberg

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Sheila Johnson

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

Taylor Swift

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Tavis Smiley

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

Tanya Tucker

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

Suzy Kassem

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

Tony Robbins

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.