Quotes About Success

Success is a collective job, and one can't claim the credit for themselves.

My wife has her own career and has been successful as well. The key for our success is mutual support for each other.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.

For me, the most exciting aspect of my success is how the insights that Ayasdi's technology has found in data can truly impact people's lives.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.

Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.

The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'

The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.

Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.

Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.