Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naveen Jain

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

Naveen Jain

Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.

Naveen Jain

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Nathaniel Branden

Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

Nathaniel Branden

Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Mother Teresa

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Mother Teresa

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Mother Teresa

I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.

Victor Hugo

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Vernon Howard

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

Vernon Howard

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Richard Bach

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Robert Foster Bennett

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

Robert Foster Bennett

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Robert Foster Bennett

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Robert Foster Bennett

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Robert Fulghum

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

Robert Fulghum

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Rita Mae Brown

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Richard Tyler

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

Richard V. Allen

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

Richard V. Allen

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Richard Marx

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Thucydides

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thomas Nagel

If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.

Thomas E. Mann

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Thomas S. Monson

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Thomas Sowell

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Thomas Reed

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Robert Metcalfe

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.