Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

Jim Rohn

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

Jim Rohn

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Jim Rohn

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Jim Rohn

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Jim Rohn

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

George Matthew Adams

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

George Lucas

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

George Lucas

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.

George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

George Lucas

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

George Lucas

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

George MacDonald

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Emanuel Ax

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Elizabeth Gilbert

All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

Elisabeth Moss

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

Joel Osteen

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Joel Osteen

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Jimmy Nail

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Rollins

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Jimmy Hoffa

But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes.

Louise Hay

I am as successful as I make up my mind to be

John Daly

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.

John D. Rockefeller

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

John D. Rockefeller

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

John Chancellor

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.