Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Babson

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Satoru Iwata

As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.

Sasha Azevedo

If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!

Sasha Azevedo

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Sarah Vowell

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Samuel Johnson

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Vivek Wadhwa

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

Vincent Tan

You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

William Howard Taft

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Walter Martin

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

Walter Lippmann

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Walter Lippmann

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Walter Lippmann

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Voltaire

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

William Feather

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

William Feather

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

William Feather

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

William Feather

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

William T. Vollmann

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

William Labov

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

William Lloyd Garrison

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

William Lloyd Garrison

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Hurt

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

William Booth

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Wilkie Collins

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

Walter Winchell

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

Walter Winchell

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Russell

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

Walter Russell

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.