Quotes About Success

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.

If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: "Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.

There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want