Quotes About Success

You do not want to be playing good teams and always let them have 70 per cent of the ball, and expect it to work every time. That does not happen often.

Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even before the movie. Great guy. We've done theater and stage plays together, Lincoln Center and all kinds of things.

Dhanam' is one of the interesting scripts that I came across. It centers around me.

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

My mother saw the magazine, and she was like, 'You made it.' I've been on Showtime and Comedy Central, but none of that matters - all that matter is that she sees me in 'People!'

In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

It's called showbusiness, and the business end of it is very important, especially now. You have to learn the business end of it; otherwise, you get ripped off left, right and centre.

I'm just achieving goals left, right and centre, and I just feel incredibly lucky because I never thought it would happen.

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

If you don't have the dollars and cents, you'll not be able to accomplish anything.

For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.

As a businessman, if you ask me what I'm proud of, I'm proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

I didn't aspire to be the CEO of Deloitte, but I aspired to be a leader in Deloitte.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

I'm not going out there screaming, 'I'm CEO! I'm CEO!' That's not the way to do it.

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

It's important for a CEO to feel lucky.

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.