Quotes About Success

Failure is only temporary.

Humiliation stimulates effort

We are already No. 1, we are more than the total of the other guys. We've only been at it a week. I feel fantastic. (on the mobile payment business)

Mo's success was based on demographic research that showed talk radio audiences were predominantly male, bitter, undereducated, untraveled, did not know how to figure percentages and unfailingly blew all major life decisions.

they grab you off the street without warning, sack over your head and into the back of a van. Variation on tough love, but incredible success rate...

It's not a question of whether crime pays. It's whether you enjoy your job. That's the key to life.

The early fly gets the cadaver

But—damn it all—why does money have to be the marker of a man? That was the thing about America he most despised, measuring existence by the size of one's pile.

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

that was an ugly win, but a great one. They're all great, aren't they?

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

I don't want to join you, I want to beat you

One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest.

I have no problems doing a song or a cameo. You never know what can bring success - just like the role I did in Buddhivanta.'

I am Salman's discovery and I have no problems when people say that. Whatever I am today is because of him. I feel very proud that I am associated with him.

Would it be great to intercept Peyton? No question about it.

No question, I love the path I've taken.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

There was no question that I was going to school.

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

My philosophy was simple. I was trying to score when I got the football in my hand. There was no question about that.

I'm hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same time, there's no question that I entered the market at the right moment.