Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Stewart

When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.

Martha Stewart

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Mark Ronson

I guess the best thing about having a successful record like this is, like, I know I'm at least good for another five years, like, before everyone starts to like - all the haters start to come out again. And that's really what it is.

Mark Cuban

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Marie Dressler

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Conquer but never triumph.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

Mark Zuckerberg

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

Ted Nelson

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

Ted Turner

Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.

Ted Turner

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

Ted Turner

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Theodore Parker

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

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.