Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Stallman

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Richard Simmons

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Richard Harris

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Hamming

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to.

Richard Hamming

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Richard Allen

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

Reed Hastings

But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it is a very deep connection, so we're willing to make that investment knowing that it's not the quick route to success that might be in other countries.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Tariq Ramadan

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

T. Harv Eker

Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

T. Harv Eker

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.

T. Harv Eker

It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them.

T. Harv Eker

There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside of you.

T. S. Eliot

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

T. S. Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Sylvester Stallone

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

Suze Orman

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

Suze Orman

Liking who you are and liking what you do can make you an incredibly successful person.

Suze Orman

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Suze Orman

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Susan Sontag

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

Scott Adams

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

Scott Adams

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

Scott Adams

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

Joseph Kosinski

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Joss Whedon

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Koichi Tanaka

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Kobe Bryant

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Kofi Annan

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

Kevin Kline

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.