Quotes About Success

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

My tone and my style are reflected in the movies I choose to make. I want to make big movies. My dream is to be Jon Favreau or Ben Affleck.

in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

No matter what the level of funding or success may be, there's always money missing, and you still want to have a gorgeous image, an endless cast and a flawless rendering.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.