Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Allen

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.

Tim Allen

The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this...

Tiger Woods

It's something you have to find from within. You have to keep pushing yourself from within. It's not about what other people think and what other people say. It's about what you want to accomplish and do you want to go out there and be prepared to beat everyone you play or face.

Tiger Woods

I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.

Tiger Woods

In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

Thomas Troward

Success depends on our using, and not opposing...

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.

Steven Rattner

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

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.

Tom Glazer

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

Todd Bridges

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

Toby Young

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

Todd Barry

I loved Australia. I was very successful there

Tim Ferriss

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

Tibor Kalman

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Sam Donaldson

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Sam Ewing

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Tabatha Coffey

Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

Tacitus

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Swami Vivekananda

He who conquers self conquers all.

Rosanne Cash

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Tom Peters

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

Tom Peters

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Tom Robbins

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Tom Landry

The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

Tom Ellis

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying.

Tom Bergeron

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.