Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maeve Binchy

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

Mae West

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Madonna Ciccone

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

Madonna Ciccone

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Madonna Ciccone

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Madonna Ciccone

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

Sean Connery

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

Scott Aukerman

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Savielly Tartakower

Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

Savielly Tartakower

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Michelle Mone

Yes, some people will say you get successful obese businesspeople. But are they happy? Probably not.

Michelle Obama

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Michelle Obama

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

Michelle Obama

Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Michael Porter

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael Phelps

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Michael LeBoeuf

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Michael Lee-Chin

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Sherman Alexie

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

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!

Seth Godin

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Seth Godin

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.