Quotes About Success

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

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I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

I want to work with Justin Timberlake.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.