Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

Zong Qinghou

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

Zaha Hadid

When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.

Zach Braff

I think a big part of being a success is confidence. Just look at me, I know I'm successful, and I am.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

Yuri Milner

Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Zhang Ziyi

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

Zig Ziglar

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.

Zig Ziglar

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Zig Ziglar

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

Zig Ziglar

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Zig Ziglar

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

Zig Ziglar

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Zig Ziglar

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Zach Braff

I use the N word almost daily. It reminds me that I'm successful

William Hazlitt

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

William E. Gladstone

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Wendell Berry

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.

Walter Matthau

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

Walter Russell Mead

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Will Smith

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

Will Smith

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

Warren Buffett

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

Warren Buffett

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

Warren Buffett

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

Warren Buffett

After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

Warren Buffett

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

Warren Buffett

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Warren Buffett

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Warren Buffett

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.