Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Straub

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Peter Thiel

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Peter Thiel

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task to figure out what that future history will be.

Peter Thiel

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

Peter Thiel

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Peter Gabriel

When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

Peter Bogdanovich

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Peter Bergen

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Phil Crosby

Successful people breed success.

Phil Anselmo

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

Peter Senge

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

Peter James

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

Peter Greenaway

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

Percy Ross

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Paul Valery

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Paul Tudor Jones

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Paul Tudor Jones

I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

Paul Tudor Jones

Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people lose money as individual investors or traders because they're not focusing on losing money. They need to focus on the money that they have at risk and how much capital is at risk in any single investment they have. If everyone spent 90 percent of their time on that, not 90 percent of the time on pie-in-the-sky ideas on how much money they're going to make, then they will be incredibly successful investors.

Paul Wellstone

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

Paul Wellstone

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Mel Gibson

The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You're not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it's on purpose. It's so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable.

Mel Gibson

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Pindar

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

Pindar

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Pindar

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Pierre Bourdieu

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Rachael Ray

Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.

Phil McGraw

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Pete Cashmore

Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

St. Jerome

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Sri Aurobindo

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.