Quotes About Success

I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.

I think it's always important to get off to a good start early, and especially with a younger team that hasn't been together that long, you want to get out of the gates hot and strong.

We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.

Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.

I want to be an impact player and come out of the gates fast.

All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people have tried very very hard to avoid exactly this problem.

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

The thing about the Young Bucks is that they've sort of turned their own success into this movement. They don't really follow a format or play by a set of rules, they just go out there and feel everything, so it's hard to gauge a game plan for them.

Nobody ever gave me anything. Everything I got I had to work for.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

Matthew Morrison

Because I am the daughter of Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar, people have expectations fixed on me as I gear up to carry the family legacy.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

My dad would talk to players like Claude Lemieux and Stephane Richer and tell them one day his son was going to play in the NHL. How many dads say the same thing? But, gee, he was right.

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Marissa Mayer

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

It's about hard work and not gender.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur - you either have that gene or not. I really disagree with that.

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

When I was 10, I was playing golf exhibitions with Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen.