Quotes About Success

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.

I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.

I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

You're not just top-10 UFC because you suck.

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

I'd be lying if I said that it didn't suck to see Durant doing so well.

Getting or not getting the job isn't an indicator of your abilities. You're going to get jobs when you think you sucked, and you're not going to get jobs when you think you rocked.

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

Being number two sucks.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

We don't tell a 17-year-old kid that Nike sucks, because the fact of the matter is, Nike doesn't suck. They're actually very good at what they do.

I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.

I know that, me being from Sudan and London, it's a big honour to have even made it to the NBA.

With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a star: you have a big record on the radio, and you're on stage, and you've never done it before. Let's say your first show is 'Summer Jam,' and you're in front of 60,000 people, and you've never played an arena, ever. You're gonna suck.

I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.