Quotes About Success

You should always use your Nobel prize money to buy property.

I'm not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

I love the English language, but I'm crap at it, so I might as well do what I'm good at. The same goes for my kids, who are also dyslexic. I won't pressure them to do anything. They've each got a trust and a mortgage-free property, which is a lot more than I had, so I know they will always be fine.

I didn't come from a rich family. We had no money. And now living in all these lavish houses and property around the world, it's my choice. It's something that I've worked for.

A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

A good financial proposal doesn't mean you'll get to do a lot of things. There are times when you have to think about your career.

I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

There is more equity now in movies and TV, although I think its mostly because of changing demographics. It's not a moral proposition. It's good business. Shows about people of all colors are making money.

Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.

People say I give too much credit to people but it's not about that. It's about being real. And being real is giving props when it's due. You can't be hating or mad when you see people doing their thing. I love it. If you mad then you not doing something right.

Wrestling is a business, it is show business and wrestling championships are props.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

We've all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you've got to make it happen and fight through it.

When I made it to the pros I wanted to be a guy who could stay in the league, be OK, do whatever I had to do to make some money and do what I do. As the years started coming, I started getting better.