Famous Quotes & Sayings

This has been a tremendously successful fundraising quarter.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Neil Gaiman

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

Neil Gaiman

You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

John Waters

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

John W. Snow

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

John W. Snow

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

John W. Snow

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

John Toshack

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience,

John Templeton

You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.

John Templeton

Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's attention away from the distracting details of the difficulty. From a detached perspective, we may examine the situation in a new or different light and, after exploring information and options, choose an appropriate course of action.

John Ruskin

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

John Ruskin

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

John Sebastian

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

John Searle

There is no success or failure in Nature.

John Philip Sousa

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Mark Strong

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

Nick Lowe

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

Nicholas Lemann

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

Nancy Friday

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

Nancy Astor

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Seth Berkley

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

Scott Hamilton

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Scott Caan

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Seth Godin

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Seth Godin

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Seth Godin

I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

Seth Godin

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

Seth Godin

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Seth Godin

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Seth Godin

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!