Quotes About Success

Don't focus on reaching the C-Suite. Focus on doing great work and serving your customers and community. That's how you can find the right opportunities and get the skills and experience to get to the top in your career.

I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a 'name' around the country.

Football is football but life is life. I am so happy at being a father and reaching the Champions League final.

My dad had a dream of his kids reaching the NFL. My older brother was actually the first to make it. His career didn't really last too long, but he always had more passion for documentaries.

With a lot of attention comes criticism, but I'll take that. I'm reaching all the goals I've set for myself, so you can't say anything bad about that.

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year.

As a child you dream of playing for your country, but when it really happens you do not know how to react.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to say how any of us would deal with that.

If you can prepare yourself to the best of your abilities and react to the situation, things will fall into place.

Competition is good for any player as long as they react the right way and use it as motivation.

If the fans are making a noise and reacting, then you're doing a good job.

Once '0 to 100' happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction - really the first big record that I was a part of. It was a big, life-changing thing for me.

When David Cross and I made 'Todd Margaret,' we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome.

Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.

To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.