Famous Quotes & Sayings

Savielly Tartakower

Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

Michelle Mone

Yes, some people will say you get successful obese businesspeople. But are they happy? Probably not.

Michelle Obama

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

Michelle Obama

Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Michael Porter

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael LeBoeuf

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Michael Lee-Chin

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Sherman Alexie

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

John Hench

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

John Engler

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

John Ensign

The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.

John Cale

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

John Calipari

A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!

John B. Larson

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

Joey Skaggs

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Joel Klein

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

Frankie Valli

Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. Its good that its that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

Frank Frazetta

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

Elaine Pagels

The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.

Joel Osteen

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Jimmy Nail

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Rollins

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Jimmy Hoffa

But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes.

Louise Hay

I am as successful as I make up my mind to be

Lou Brock

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Lou Gerstner

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

John F. Kennedy

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

Lisa Alther

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Linus Torvalds

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

Linus Torvalds

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Lindsay Davenport

While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.

Lincoln Steffens

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.