Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

Steve Ballmer

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Steve Carell

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

Steve Carell

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

Shirley Eaton

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm really glad that I was famous and successful at the time I was because it was bad enough then in a profession which tended to eat you up and never give you any free time. But I think that the youngsters today have a really bad time from every angle.

Shawn Fanning

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

Shawn Achor

Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

Shahid Kapoor

I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor... When you give super-hit films then only you are considered as a good actor. At least that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.

Shakti Gawain

The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.

Sergey Brin

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Scott Walker

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

Rick Riordan

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

Richard Branson

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

Richard Branson

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Richard Branson

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

Richard Branson

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

Richard Branson

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

Richard Branson

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Richard Branson

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

Richard Branson

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Richard Branson

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

Richard Branson

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

Richard Branson

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.

Richard Branson

Above all, you want to create something you're proud of.

Swami Vivekananda

In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.

Tim Harford

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

Thucydides

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

Richard Branson

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

Tim O'Reilly

The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?

Tiki Barber

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.

Tim Allen

The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this...

Steven Rattner

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

Steven Spielberg

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.