Quotes About Success

The Sexyweight Champion of the World

There are no lazy trillionaires.

They call me 'Big Link' not because I'm a big guy, but because I do big things.

You can't win them all, but I can.

I don't think the world works on merit.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship,it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth,which carries on being carelessly true without any help.By contrast, my lie needed as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock : Till death do us part.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Economics doesn't reward nice. It rewards smart.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.

People, not methodologies or tools, make projects successful.

The most successful people I know do their best work under any conditions, for anyone.

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

I wondered what getting an A would feel like. The best feeling in the world, probably. Like going to a Yankees game with your dad and eating three hot dogs with extra everything.

For T.J., it's simply an article of faith that happiness will be the natural by-product of success.

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

The higher They Climb, The Harder They Fall " - Cole's Pa