Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chamique Holdsclaw

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

Charles M. Schwab

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Charles M. Schwab

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

Mark Cuban

What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.

Mark Cuban

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

Mark Cuban

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because for the longest time, I have said that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass... and, by god, last week they went in and looked for it. They didn't find it, so now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words Bush, operation, and successful in the same sentence.

Bill Ackman

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

Bill Watterson

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Bob Iger

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

Bob Hope

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful

Bill Frist

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

Betty Dodson

When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

Bill Gates

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

Bill Gates

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Bill Gates

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

It's unfortunate, and we're disappointed the FDA did not grant the stay, ... But because there are no new scientific findings other than what the poultry groups submitted already, the likelihood of the company being successful in a further legal action is next to nil.

Bob Goodlatte

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Chazz Palminteri

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Charlie Sheen

You can't not be a little different from others and be successful for three decades.

Charlie Adam

Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Bill Murray

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

Benjamin Jowett

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Benjamin Haydon

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Bernard Baruch

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Carolyn Wells

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Carl Karcher

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Duke Ellington

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

Douglass North

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society