Quotes About Success

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.

I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.

When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them.

People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.

There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn't seem right, but 300... they wanted me bad. It felt like a family.

I've gone through a lot of 'nos' from record labels but I've built a great team along the way and that's the best thing you can have - people around you who believe in you and drive you forward.

I've seen a lot of artists fall out with their labels and be irrelevant when they come back.

I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful.

I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Labour's disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.

I have grown up believing that when an individual excels at what he does, it makes him desirable. I am a living example that lack of conventional good looks shouldn't hinder you from being awesome.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

If you boost your financial intelligence, moreover, you will very likely stand out from the crowd.

Steve Jobs's first story involved connecting dots, and it began with a most unusual promise.