Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Publilius Syrus

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Nolan Bushnell

Being successful is kind of dull.

Noel Gallagher

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

Noel Gallagher

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Nina Simone

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Miguel de Cervantes

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Howie Mandel

When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

Hank Aaron

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Gore Vidal

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Giancarlo Esposito

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.

Harvey S. Firestone

Success is the sum of details.

Harold Prince

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

James D'arcy

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

James D. Watson

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

James Brown

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

Jakob Nielsen

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Jaime Pressly

It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story, you've got to be able to continue to tell this story.

Jack White

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Isaac Asimov

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

Gary Vaynerchuk

The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

Gary Carter

It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

Frank Perdue

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

Christine McVie

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

Christina Ricci

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Christina Ricci

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.