Quotes About Success

I don't know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, 'Aren't your proud of Jimmy now that he's a successful actor?' And my dad was like, 'No, not really. I wish he was a scientist.' I guess scientist is more noble in the Asian culture.

Do what's best for you, and do it to the best of your ability - go after your goals like nobody's business.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

After 'Socha Na Tha' flopped, nobody wanted to work with me. I became very bitter and angry. So now when the industry and the audience accept me, I feel more empowered.

Nobody's easy until after you beat them.

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn't matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

I can't worry about nobody else. I've got to be Danny Garcia and win my fights and everything else will fall into place.

The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.

I felt like I could take the responsibility and make the Nas movement bigger and not keep it confined to the Tri-State area, so to speak. He allowed me to do that. When we were together, we made a lot of noise, and I made him an international star.

I feel like you'll be most successful in life if you just try to block the noise, sometimes the hate can be louder than the love.

There's a lot of noise if we don't win everything, which also means that we're looked at as great players. We're under a lot of pressure.