Quotes About Success

I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

I try my best to keep my feet on the floor and stay humble and let my ability do the talking.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

If you have a goal, you have to step forward and try to get it accomplished.

If I'm going to try to achieve something, regardless of how tough it might and the obstacles I face, I grit my teeth and go for it or I don't do it at all. It's about reaching the goals you've set with the opportunities you've been given.

'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

You can have all the talent in the world, but it's the ability to go out there every day and try to get better. And that's the key to being successful and being successful for a long time.

There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful person's story, it's really rare that it was all or nothing. It's steps, and I just try to remind myself of that in terms of the things that I want; it's like, everything is a step, leading you to where you need to go.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

We say success in America is about hard work and character. It's not really. Most of success today is about how good you are at certain tests and what kind of family background you have, with some exceptions sprinkled in to try and make it all seem fair.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.