Famous Quotes & Sayings

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'.

Edward de Bono

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Edward Bok

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.

Edward Bok

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Edward Boyden

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Edward Albee

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

Edith Evans

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Eddie Cantor

It takes years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eckhart Tolle

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Holly Johnson

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

John F. Kennedy

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Failure has no friends.

John F. Kennedy

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Jonathan Ive

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money,

Jonathan Haidt

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

Jonathan Adler

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.

Jonah Lehrer

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

Jonah Goldberg

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Jon Stewart

If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.

Kate Beckinsale

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

Justin Trudeau

Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.

Justin Timberlake

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

Julie Delpy

I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

Lee Iacocca

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Laurie David

A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.

Laurie Colwin

Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

Laura Bell Bundy

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

LaToya Jackson

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

Laura Bush

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

Larry Bird

Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

L. Ron Hubbard

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.