Quotes About Success

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.

Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.

A lot of girls that work really hard and have had long careers, and stay grounded. I love Carolyn Murphy, she is gorgeous. All the VS Angels! They work super hard and have the sweetest personalities.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

Life isn't about a hand-out. That's not what the NFL is about and that won't get you in the NFL or take care of you once you're out of the NFL. You have to work.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.