Quotes About Success

Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Motley Crue? It's impossible.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn't exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won.

People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.

One of my idols is my dad. All his work in Motown, and just the way he conducted himself as a human being was always interesting to me, and it seemed like the successful way, and it is a successful way, and I always wanted to do that. He's funny, and all that stuff.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves. More

Since all countries around the world began poor, what requires an explanation is not why there is poverty but how some countries rose out of poverty to become prosperous.

Those who disdain wealth as a worthy goal for an individual or a society seem not to realize that wealth is the only thing that can prevent poverty.

financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.

La competencia ha sido y será siempre problemática para aquellos que tienen que competir. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and only uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men will know. - Thomas Wolfe

Athletics have an obvious advantage over the classics for the purpose of leisure-class learning, since success as an athlete presumes, not only a waste of time, but also a waste of money, as well as the possession of certain highly unindustrial archaic traits of character and temperament.

they will neither become over-confident because of their successes in war, nor, because of the charms and blessings of peace, will they put up the acts of aggression. -p104

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

The only reason I enter an event is to win. It's not to make the cut or finish top 10 or even second. It's to win the event.

successful selling is about building and maintaining trust and respect in a sales relationship.

Prosperity is not about money, but about attitudes.