Quotes About Success

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Do what you do with gladness and you will be rewarded accordingly.

Happiness is only having something better than others.

Life is a sequence of chain. Hold on to it and you will reach your desire destination.

Okay, Buzzkill, this is a win. You celebrate wins. You don't shit on them.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Results and Roses The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure, there are thousands to point out to you one by one, the dangers that wait to assail you, But just buckle in, with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing, that cannot be done and you'll do it!!

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach the one way to get the goal he would reach.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

I want to be famous but unknown!

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

DREAMS Never by many are marvels wrought, By one or two are the dreams first caught. . . The dreamer must toil when the odds are great, Must stand to failure and work and wait. Must keep his faith though he stand alone, Until the truth of his dream is known.

In our view, leadership is always a relationship, and truly successful leadership thrives in a group culture of high openness and high trust. Leadership and culture can be seen as two sides of the same coin, and culture is quintessentially a group phenomenon. Though this book focuses on a new model of leadership, it is equally a book about culture and group dynamics.

We would never consider for a moment paying the team members equally. In the Olympics we usually have some of the world's fastest runners yet have lost some of the relay races because we could not pass the baton without dropping it! We take it for granted that accountability must be individual; there must be someone to praise for victory and someone to blame for defeat, the individual where "the buck stops.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.