Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Pausch

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Randy Pausch

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Ralph Nader

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

Ralph Nader

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

Ralph Bunche

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Sean Connery

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

Scott Aukerman

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Savielly Tartakower

Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

Savielly Tartakower

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Michelle Mone

Yes, some people will say you get successful obese businesspeople. But are they happy? Probably not.

Michelle Obama

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Michelle Obama

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

Michelle Obama

Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Michael Porter

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael Phelps

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Michael LeBoeuf

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Michael Lee-Chin

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Sherman Alexie

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Seth Berkley

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

Scott Hamilton

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Scott Caan

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Seth Godin

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Seth Godin

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Seth Godin

I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

Seth Godin

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

Seth Godin

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Seth Godin

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Seth Godin

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!