Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Spielberg

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.

Reggie Jackson

True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

Tom Selleck

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

Tom Shadyac

Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.

Tom T. Hall

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.

Thomas Jones

There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

Thomas J. Watson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Stanley

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

Thomas J. Stanley

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Thomas Keller

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

Raymond Arroyo

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Ville Valo

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

Vin Diesel

When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

Vijay Mallya

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

Victoria Beckham

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.

Victoria Beckham

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

Victor Kiam

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Victor Hugo

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Vernon Howard

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

Vernon Howard

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Richard Bach

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Robert Foster Bennett

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

Robert Foster Bennett

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Robert Foster Bennett

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Robert Foster Bennett

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Robert Fulghum

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

Robert Fulghum

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Rita Mae Brown

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Richard Tyler

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

Richard V. Allen

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

Richard V. Allen

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Richard Marx

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.