Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

James Anthony Froude

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

Jacoby Shaddix

It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

Henry A. Kissinger

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Helen Gurley Brown

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

Helen Gurley Brown

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Helen Gurley Brown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

Henry Hazlitt

Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition will acquire more capital to increase their production still further; those who are least successful will be forced out of the field. So capitalist production tends constantly to be drawn into the hands of the most efficient.

Henry Hazlitt

In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

Henry Bessemer

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Henry Blodget

The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.

Heber J. Grant

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

Plautus

The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

Plato

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

Philip Zimbardo

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Paula Cole

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

Phil Jackson

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

Phil McGraw

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

Mary E. Pearson

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Ledisi

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Lee Ann Womack

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Lauryn Hill

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix...

Lance Burton

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

Lance Armstrong

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

John Updike

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Stuart Mill

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.