Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Adams

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

Scott Adams

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

Scott Adams

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

Ray Romano

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

Ray Romano

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

Ray McGovern

Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?

Ray Manzarek

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

Ray Kurzweil

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Ray Kroc

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Ray Kroc

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Raquel Welch

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Ratan Tata

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Ratan Tata

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

Randy Bachman

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Thomas Jefferson

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Thomas Jefferson

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Robert Herjavec

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.

Robert Herjavec

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

Robert Herjavec

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Robert Holden

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

Tabatha Coffey

Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

Tacitus

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Swami Vivekananda

He who conquers self conquers all.

Rosanne Cash

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Stephen King

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

Stephen King

A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.

Stephanie Miller

I didn't start talk radio until '95 in L.A. The show was very successful, and they actually tried to syndicate it nationally, but I couldn't get stations. It was like, "We don't care that she's funny and she's got great ratings. She's liberal!"

Stanley Tucci

You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.

Stan Smith

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Stan Lee

I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

Stan Lee

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.