Famous Quotes & Sayings

John H. Johnson

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

Ayn Rand

Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

Bertrand Russell

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Benjamin Disraeli

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Benjamin Disraeli

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

To me, it's not a lay-up to be a successful IPO.

To me, it is progress, ... I'm not sure it's success unless you're in the playoffs.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Edgar Allan Poe

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never waste time looking back.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

Elbert Hubbard

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Elbert Hubbard

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Elbert Hubbard

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Elbert Hubbard

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Eileen Caddy

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Are we having as much success as in the past? Honestly, not so much right now,

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Lisa Gerrard

At the end of the day, success has nothing to do with money,

Jillian Mayer

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.

This has been a tremendously successful fundraising quarter.

A lot of teams that have had a lot of success get comfortable,

They have had a lot of success with it.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Brendan Shanahan

It's effective. It's not pretty hockey. That's what makes the trap successful you are able to clog it up.