Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Stack

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Robert Southey

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Vivek Wadhwa

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

Vincent Tan

You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

William Howard Taft

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Willa Cather

The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Will Smith

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

Will Smith

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

Warren Buffett

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

Warren Buffett

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

Warren Buffett

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

Warren Buffett

After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

Warren Buffett

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

Warren Buffett

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Warren Buffett

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Warren Buffett

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Warren Buffett

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Vivienne Westwood

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Vladimir Lenin

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Will McDonough

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Wayne Dyer

Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

Wayne Dyer

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Wayne Dyer

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

Walter Cronkite

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

William Bernbach

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

Wendy Wasserstein

I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

Wernher von Braun

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

Webb Simpson

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.