Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

William Feather

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

William T. Vollmann

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

William Labov

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

William Hurt

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Wilkie Collins

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Walter Russell

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

Walter Russell

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

Yogi Berra

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

Winston Churchill

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Willie Brown

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

Willie Aames

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

William Zinsser

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

William Safire

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

William S. Burroughs

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work ... and if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

Wong Kar-wai

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

Wladimir Klitschko

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

Wladimir Klitschko

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

Will Rogers

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

Will Rogers

If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

Will Rogers

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

Wes Craven

I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that's what happened.

Warren Farrell

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.

Zong Qinghou

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

Zach Braff

I think a big part of being a success is confidence. Just look at me, I know I'm successful, and I am.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

Yuri Milner

Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Zach Braff

I use the N word almost daily. It reminds me that I'm successful

William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Walter Matthau

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

Walter Russell Mead

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Will Smith

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.