Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Blodget

The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.

Heber J. Grant

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

Henry Ford

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

Henry Ford

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

Henry Ford

success is 99% failure

Mallory Ortberg

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

Malcolm Muggeridge

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

Malcolm X

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm Gladwell

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Malcolm Gladwell

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

Malcolm Gladwell

Emotion is contagious.

Malcolm Gladwell

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Malcolm Gladwell

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Malcolm Gladwell

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

Malcolm Gladwell

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Malcolm Gladwell

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Malcolm Gladwell

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

John C. Maxwell

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

John C. Maxwell

You must develop yourself to be successful

John C. Maxwell

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

John C. Maxwell

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

John C. Maxwell

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

John C. Maxwell

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

John C. Maxwell

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

John C. Maxwell

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

John C. Maxwell

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.