Quotes About Success

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.

People call me all the time and say, "Man, your players aren't signed yet." Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Some people measure their success by the profession their children have chosen, by the purchase of a house, by how often they visit or call. But the only measurement, truly, is something that's quite subjective: have you raised good people?

If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

It is worth noting that the standard American tests of success that they have flunked are almost exclusively economic. If one applied social indices instead—such as rates of crime, child abuse, illegitimacy, and divorce—the Hmong would probably score better than most refugee groups (and also better than most Americans), but those are not the forms of success to which our culture assigns its highest priority.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

I should mention that all of the above explorers were unqualified failures. Not coincidentally, they were also all British. Americans admire success. Englishman admire heroic failure. Given a choice -- at least in my reading -- I'm un-American enough to take quixotry over efficiency any day.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.