Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Strait

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

George Soros

However, you have to recognize that regulations will never be completely successful and they will always be full of holes. You must constantly be ready to fill new holes. Actually regulation should be kept to a minimum, but there has to be some cooperation between market participants and authorities - as was the case in the early postwar years. The Bank of England was a very successful regulator by cooperating with market participants. This cooperative spirit was broken by the market fundamentalists.

George Soros

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

George Soros

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

George Soros

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

George Soros

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

George Soros

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

George Soros

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

George R. R. Martin

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Jean Cocteau

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Gene Simmons

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Garry Winogrand

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

Garry Winogrand

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

Gail Godwin

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Gail Godwin

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Gail Sheehy

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Fernando Pessoa

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

Fernando Pessoa

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Ferdie Pacheco

I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

Felicity Kendal

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Felix Frankfurter

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Fat Joe

Whoever makes big records is a winner to me. Not the person with the mumbo jumbo, or the biggest diss record, or whatever the case may be. In the end of the day, whoever is most successful, whoever puts out a big record, wins the battle.

Fawn M. Brodie

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fanny Kemble

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

Fareed Zakaria

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Faith Ringgold

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

Fannie Hurst

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

Fannie Flagg

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Faith Hill

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Ezra Taft Benson

To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.

Ezra Taft Benson

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

Ezra Taft Benson

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Eve Ensler

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you’re watching something you do make somebody happy - that’s when happiness happens.