Quotes About Success

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.