Successful Quotes · Page 147

I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to…

— Justin Menkes

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no,…

— Maureen Johnson

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

— Jack Canfield

Successful people are often times highly motivated people.

— Jon Jones

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

— Ben Parr

I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run…

— Donald Trump

So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a…

— Jaime Pressly

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

— Tony Dungy

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up,…

— Zig Ziglar

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

— Louis C. K

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

— David Seltzer

Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft…

— Donna Mills

One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them…

— Denis Waitley

The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of…

— Reg Revans

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be…

— John C. Maxwell

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the…

— Anthony Hopkins

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that…

— Pierre Nicole

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

— Robert Duvall

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

— Steve Jobs

As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you…

— J. B. Smoove

Many people look at successful entrepreneurs and think it's easy to get where they are at, but it really isn't. Many entrepreneurs…

— Jeet Banerjee

One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

You have to have a product or service that offers customers a unique advantage over the competition. Some people think it has…

— Cameron Johnson

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same:…

— Kiana Tom

The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those…

— Tim O'Reilly

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Yogi Berra

I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her…

— Karla Souza

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

— Robert Kiyosaki

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

— Publilius Syrus

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or…

— Norbert Wiener

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that…

— Anne Sweeney

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...

— William Osler

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is…

— Richard Branson

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not…

— Vincent de Paul

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me,…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit,…

— Anita Shreve

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

— Theodore Annemann