Quotes About Success

I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

I am very grateful for the opportunities provided to me through appearing on 'American Idol.' The value that the fans and the show have given to my career is not lost on me. However, I have not felt that I have been free to conduct my career in a way that I am comfortable with.

I play basketball, and I'm grateful for what the sport has provided for me and my family, but I'm even more appreciative for the voice and platform that has come along with it.

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.

By providing clear objectives for your team, and setting guardrails for how they get there, you will set them on the path to success.

When I go to the ring, I'm providing for my family.

I have worked since I was 12 years old and started providing for my family in Holland by the age of 17 - and I still do today.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

We're hyper-focused on providing the business infrastructure to allow creators to be successful in growing and running their businesses.

As long as you have a job, I'm providing for my family, I'm blessed and you move forward.

To continue my efforts as a leader for my people and to follow my family's legacy of providing legitimate opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through my sport of basketball is the true outcome of my personal success and accomplishments.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

In a small way, I'm driven by proving people wrong: because of the background I come from, I think a lot of people have doubted that I would get this far.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

I do feel at times like I'm always proving myself. But I also feel that I'm proven. I've proven I can get to the mountaintop.