Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Bourdieu

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Rachael Ray

Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.

Phil McGraw

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Pete Cashmore

Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

Paulo Coelho

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Phil Ochs

God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

Peter Lynch

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

Peter Lynch

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Peter Hain

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

Peter Hilton

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Quentin Crisp

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Prince Royce

I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.

Prince Charles

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Prince Philip

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

Phyllis Schlafly

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

Phyllis Schlafly

There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

Phillip Lim

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

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.

Jim Leach

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Jim Lovell

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Jim Shaw

I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.

Jim Rohn

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

Jim Rohn

Successful people are action oriented.