Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Rogers

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

Kelly Clark

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Kelly Clark

Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.

Margaret Thatcher

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Margaret Thatcher

Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

Margaret Thatcher

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Margaret Thatcher

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Margaret Deland

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Mark Twain

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Mark Twain

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Leontyne Price

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Paul George

In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that as a technique can be presupposed to be the most promising, However, consultations are ongoing amongst different reproductive technique experts on the way forward.

Patrick Rothfuss

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Padma Lakshmi

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

Paloma Faith

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Lilly Singh

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

Lily Allen

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Lillian Hellman

Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.

Lillian Hellman

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

LeRoy Neiman

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

Learned Hand

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.

Laurence Olivier

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Lee Westwood

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Lee Westwood

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Larry Page

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

L. Neil Smith

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

Pablo Picasso

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

Pablo Picasso

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Paul Singer

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.