Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Poindexter

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

Matt Taibbi

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Matt Taibbi

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

Meg Greenfield

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Meek Mill

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

Maxine Waters

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

Maxwell Maltz

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

Maxwell Maltz

Why not imagine yourself successful?

Maxwell Maltz

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Max de Pree

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

Matthew McGrory

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

Matthew Bourne

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

Mark Shields

I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.

Marin Alsop

Success means pursuing a career that inspires you-brings passion to your life and totally absorbs your energy.

Marina Sirtis

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

Maria Montessori

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

Mats Sundin

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

Plautus

The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

Plato

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

Philip Zimbardo

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Paula Cole

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

Phil Jackson

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

Phil McGraw

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

Mary E. Pearson

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Ledisi

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Lee Ann Womack

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Peter Crouch

I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool.

Peter Drucker

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'