Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Charles Fillmore

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Eddy Curry

I think I have enough to be successful out there.

Atul Gawande

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

Aristotle

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Eddie Vedder

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

Ed Parker

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Earl Nightingale

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Earl Nightingale

A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.

Earl Nightingale

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

Earl Nightingale

Do, each day, all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork-or to rush blindly into your work, trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible amount of time. Don't try to do tomorrow's-or next week's-work today. It's not so much the number of the things you do but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that counts. . . . you need only to succeed in the small tasks of each day. This makes a successful day. With enough of these, you have a successful week, month, year-and lifetime.

Earl Nightingale

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Earl Nightingale

If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

Earl Nightingale

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people wait passively for success to come to them, living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

Earl Nightingale

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

Earl Nightingale

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Elizabeth Bishop

There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.

Elizabeth Edwards

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Eliphas Levi

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

Edward Johnson, III

If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

Deepak Chopra

As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.

Deepak Chopra

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Deepak Chopra

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Deepak Chopra

There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.

Dave Parker

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Ramsey

Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.

Dave Ramsey

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

Dave Ramsey

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.