Quotes About Success

I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

In the end, I have a nice house and groovy cars, and so do my bandmates. It's not like they're starving.

When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.

You look good. You play good. That's a true statement.

As long as I win and keep moving forward, I make a statement every time I win.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.

I got into this sport to make a statement.

And for it to make the statement the way that it did, for 'Controlled Chaos' to debut in the Top 10 of the iTunes rock chart... We debuted behind Queen and Chris Cornell, so it's not like we were just hidden away in the back of the instrumental metal category.

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

The Rhodes scholarship process was very extensive. I had to do several personal statements, rewrite those over and over and over again. I had to get some letters of recommendation.

I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 'this is my career, and this is what I'm going to be doing.' Since I've started coming to the States, I've had a really great response. It's given me a lot of confidence to be more judicious about my own choices.

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

My friends seem to think that an hour and a half effort a day is all they need to bring to the altar to make things work for them. I couldn't do that. I thought that if you didn't work at least as hard as the guy who runs a gas station, then you had no right to hope for achievement. You certainly had to work all day, every day.

The first time I played at Green Door Store in Brighton, which is under the train station. It was sold out by 150 people.