Quotes About Success

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.

I'm a big fan of the 'Fast' franchise. I remember when I met Neal Moritz early on, I joked if Justin Lin ever left the franchise, I would be the perfect guy to slip right in and take over, and no one would know the difference.

People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it's a lot of pressure. I can't really slip up and mess up the name.

I would like to be No. 2 but never No. 1. When I was No. 1, all eyes were on me. No. 2 slips out the door quietly and makes another great record.

I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.

Getting that first foot on the rung of the ladder, that's where you find it easier to shrug off those times when your foot slips off, and you have to get yourself going again.

You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate degrees, or fill higher professional jobs, before society is deemed to have achieved the requisite degree of mobility to consider prejudice or injustice a thing of the past?

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I can't complain about the support I've been given over the years, but I don't like it slipping away. Nobody says 'I'd like to be a bit less successful next year, please'. Nobody on the planet wants that, and I certainly don't.

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

I know I can go outside and have better numbers than I put up in the slot.

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

In 1994, we had the first record by a true heavy metal band to ever hit the Billboard top No. 1 slot. We paved the way. And we always waved the heavy metal flag.

We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.