Quotes About Success

I think when 'Perfect Strangers' landed and was so well received, it was a magic moment.

I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leathers. At the first gig we played, I looked out at the audience and thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life.'

'Company' attracted a certain strata that acknowledged me as a good actor. But in terms of popularity, I owe everything I have to 'Road' because of the song, 'Raste raste, toofan sa.'

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

It was a strategic plan, because prior to us doing 'Dum and Dummer,' me and Glock never had music together. So I planned it that way - because I always wanted Glock to take off and go big on his own, without a Dolph co-sign or Dolph feature.

I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Many who know me or have worked for me are aware of my penchant for strategic planning. I consider it a critical component of the success of any organization and believe in the value of planning for a company's needs over multiple time horizons, as well as reviews against that plan at regular intervals.

I've done strategic planning, all kind of cash flows, but in fad marketing, it is all really irrelevant. It is marketing by total gut feeling. There is no market research. You either sell 500 of something, and it is a total bomb, or you sell 500 million.

Every one of Dad's colleagues would eventually commit suicide, most by gunshot to the head, and every woman in their circle except for my mother would become a dysfunctional alcoholic. But in the fifties, they were all riding high.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

The Most successful industry of the last forty years has been built on failure after failure after failure.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Henri Pélissier once said: 'Always attack as late as you can, but before the others do.

Life is a challenge, and facing that challenge is what makes the good great.

election were held in the forthcoming three to four months, under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act, 'there would be a general boycott, at the point of a pistol, on the word of Michael Collins'. To which Lloyd George replied feelingly that if Michael Collins could stop three million people using their vote, it did not say much for the success of the policy they were pursuing.

the assistance given by the ordinary man and woman was simply marvellous and was responsible in the main for the success of our fighting services.

Good managers succeed because of, not in spite of, their teams and raise their game by raising the game of the whole team, not by distancing themselves from them in pointing out their errors.

Fuck "try." Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, "If I fail, it's not my fault, I tried.

Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.