Quotes About Success

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

Hit 'em where they ain't.

I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

Along with every other male of his acquaintance he loathed the Naked Chef with messianic passion and prayed for the day he suffered a fatal accident on his scooter or burst into flames with the friction of sliding down that nauseating banister. Mark hated to think how rich he must be. And the fact that a mere bloody cook was taking up space in The Times that could be filled by a train journalist. Like himself, for example. Bastard.

He saw Hercules in the movie theater time after time, hour after hour, examining Park, judging him, admiring him, and, ultimately, promising himself that one day he, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then thirteen years old and poor as he was, would be like him, would even surpass Reg Park.

At twenty-one he had arrived in America a penniless bodybuilder, born in an obscure Austrian village, armed only with the immigrant's time-honored weapons of hope, ambition, and an almost supernatural belief in the great American dream. Now, through the traditional virtues of hard work, talent, charm, intelligence, positive mental attitude, and persistence, Arnold Schwarzenegger had become a household name.

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

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I always felt like whatever I achieved - grades, salaries, promotions, even my wife and children - was a mistake. Like I had somehow fooled everyone into thinking I was worthy of what they'd given me.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.

You and I are bona fide evidence that a writer's dreams can come true." "Maybe we should warn them that sometimes those dreams turn into nightmares,

The rest of their authors were thrown out there, much like shit flung at a wall, while the publisher waited to see who "stuck," or so it seemed to Kendall.

She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in her way, she hit the New York Times list and got a multimillion dollar contract with another publisher.

If we are in the right situation, we can achieve similar results to those who are more disciplined. Even if we don't have "it" at a young age, we can arrange our world in a way that enables our success

anxious executives continued to exploit what had made the company successful in the first place and avoided exploring new innovations and growth. That kind of exploit-over-explore outlook is likely to leave the company larder bare of new products and put it at risk of becoming the next Blockbuster, Polaroid, or Compaq

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.