Quotes About Success

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

I never thought I would work with Meryl Streep. I also love Cate Blanchett.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

I believe in Duane Ludwig as a coach. I love the guy. I train with him. Me and him mesh. When you find something that works, you keep it going. Me and him see eye to eye. We train well together.

No matter how much time there is, if guys can come together and mesh and play with some type of chemistry, you're going to win games.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.

I just want to win. I want to mess up the draft. I don't want the first pick.

I have done good work in television and wouldn't want to mess it with a wrong move.

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

The message I really want to get out there is that I'm someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

I don't want to disappoint people. Especially with an icon like Britney. You don't want to be the one who messed it up.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

There is no good leader. First of all, if you think you are a leader, you are just messed up in your head. People should think you are a leader. If you think you are a big success, again, you are messed up. Other people should think you are a success.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.

Messi is the best, just like Cristiano Ronaldo, but you can only achieve something if you play as a team.