Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desi Arnaz

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Demetri Martin

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

William Shakespeare

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Jason Calacanis

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

David Brooks

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

David Allen

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

David Allen

What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.

Abraham Lincoln

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Abraham Lincoln

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Abraham Lincoln

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Abraham Lincoln

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

J. Paul Getty

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Anne Sullivan

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

We're just getting it started, and I don't know how successful it will be. But we're going to have to do something on our own.

Samantha Shannon

For me, just being published feels like success.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Richard G. Scott

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Tiger Woods

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

Brian De Palma

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

Brian Chesky

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

Booker T. Washington

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Booker T. Washington

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Booker T. Washington

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Booker T. Washington

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Bobby Unser

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Billy Connolly

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

Boy George

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

Bonnie Bassler

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Bodhidharma

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Bruce Feiler

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.