Quotes About Success

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.