Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula White

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!

Philip Emeagwali

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Peter Straub

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Peter Thiel

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Peter Thiel

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task to figure out what that future history will be.

Peter Thiel

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

Peter Thiel

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Peter Gabriel

When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

Peter Bogdanovich

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Peter Bergen

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Phil Crosby

Successful people breed success.

Phil Anselmo

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

Peter Senge

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

Peter James

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

Pete Sampras

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

Pete Sampras

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Pearl Cleage

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

Phoebe Snow

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

Phyllis McGinley

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Rabindranath Tagore

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

Rabindranath Tagore

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Puff Daddy

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

Puff Daddy

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

Puff Daddy

I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.

Lynn Nottage

If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Gustave Flaubert

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gordon Ramsay

Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

Gordon Ramsay

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

John Dryden

The greater part performed achieves the less.

John Masefield

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

John Madden

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

John Linder

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.