Quotes About Success

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.

In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.