Quotes About Success

I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow.

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it.

All I've ever wanted is a nice truck, and that's what I got.

I wanted to be the best footballer in Belgian history. That was my goal. Not good. Not great. The best.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.

My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the business. If I wanted to get above the plateau that I had reached in the U.K., I had to make that move.

I would say I've done everything I wanted to.

I learnt since I was a child growing up in a small village in the Czech Republic that I had to be like that to compete, to be the best and then to compete against the best. There has not been a second, a minute, an hour, a day that I have missed because I always wanted to improve.

I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.

2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to no label.

There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don't think you ever believe it until it actually happens.

Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.