Quotes About Success

I have a lot of role models.

Seeing guys like Canelo helps me get better because they are already champions and I want to become champion. Having role models like that helps me a lot.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

I find that the more you achieve, the more modest you become.

Both my husband and I come from very modest backgrounds. He's obviously done very well, and I've worked hard all my life and done well, too.

Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

Growing up, my mom and dad relentlessly emphasized hard work and a good education as key to a better future.

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I've enjoyed every moment of it.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.