Quotes About Success

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

I'm very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That's the whole secret to everything. It's having people who love to work where they're working and want to win.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to.

Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment