Quotes About Success

I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.

If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical