Quotes About Success

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

And all to leave what with his toil he wonTo that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

But almost from the beginning, Vallee's special ability as a talent scout came to the fore. He plucked Alice Faye out of the chorus in George White's Scandals and sent her to vocal and film stardom. He found Frances Langford singing on a small station in Florida. Beatrice Lillie, Milton Berle, and Phil Baker got their first major radio exposure on the Vallee show.

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.