Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter Lynch

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

Peter Lynch

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Peter Hain

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

Peter Hilton

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Prince Royce

I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.

Prince Charles

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Prince Philip

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

Phyllis Schlafly

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

Phyllis Schlafly

There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

Phillip Lim

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Naveen Jain

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

Naveen Jain

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Mother Teresa

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Mother Teresa

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Vernon Howard

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Robert Fulghum

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Rita Mae Brown

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Richard Tyler

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

Richard V. Allen

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

Richard V. Allen

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Thucydides

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thomas Nagel

If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.

Thomas E. Mann

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Thomas Reed

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Robert Metcalfe

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

Robert Knepper

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

Robert Heller

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Robert H. Goddard

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.

Robert Griffin III

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

Vita Sackville-West

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.