Quotes About Success

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

I don't think about second or third place.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

I became third in the U.S. as a junior pro surfer.

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working and lucky to be working.

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.