Quotes About Success

There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.

I think it's the way I'm wired, the way I'm built. I want to improve. If you're not improving, someone's passing.

Since childhood, my mind was wired like that. My mindset was I want to be a businessman.

Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story.

The free market for mobile devices and wireless service has been a dramatic success.

Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

I'm so blessed to have gone to Wisconsin. It's a great school and great coaching staff with incredible fans. I had a lot of great teammates that wanted to be successful. I played behind a huge offensive line. I think that proved a lot, too, as a 5-11 quarterback showing I could play under center with those guys in front of me.

I'm an accountant. I'm a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I'm a U.S. senator.

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

The voters in Wisconsin elected me last year for the third time because they wanted someone who aimed high, not aimed low. Before I came in, the unemployment rate was over eight percent. It's now down to 4.6 percent.

The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it's all who you work for, not where you work or what level.

When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Career wise, consistency is one of the keys to longevity. When you are consistent people know what they are going to get, and that's the foundation for having a long career.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

He that is rich is wise.

I am old enough and wise enough and I have been around long enough to know that things will be said - and not nice things a lot of the time. And when you are doing well, nice things will be said.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.