Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula White

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!

Philip Emeagwali

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Peter Straub

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Peter Thiel

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Peter Thiel

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task to figure out what that future history will be.

Peter Thiel

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

Peter Thiel

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Peter Gabriel

When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

Peter Bogdanovich

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Peter Bergen

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Phil Crosby

Successful people breed success.

Phil Anselmo

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

Peter Senge

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

Peter James

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

Randy Bachman

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Thomas Jefferson

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Thomas Jefferson

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Robert Herjavec

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.

Robert Herjavec

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

Robert Herjavec

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Robert Holden

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

Tabatha Coffey

Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

Tacitus

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Swami Vivekananda

He who conquers self conquers all.

Rosanne Cash

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Vera Brittain

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

Van Wyck Brooks

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Valerie Harper

I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

Valerie Harper

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.

Valentino Garavani

Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without it, you can't be successful. But luck is something you have to stimulate, something you have to nurture through the choices you make...That's why things have always worked out for me. Things work out not just because I'm lucky, but because I plan ahead. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I've always spent a lot of time trying to surround myself with the right people, the kinds of teammates who could lead me to my goals.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Richard Dawkins

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.