Quotes About Success

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

The might and magic of money is not what it allows you to own; it is what it allows you to be. Money is freedom.

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives.

keep faith in "the advantages to be expected from perseverance…so long as any chance for success may remain.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

I don't think your insecurity ever disappears. Sometimes I think the more successful you become the less secure you feel. This is kind of frightening, really.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.

No more small towns for me. I was going to the city to get my degree in pimping.

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

and the money is so good, they become intoxicated not only with the riches—they become intoxicated with themselves.

But when I got to what I thought was the finish line, at the end of that hustling road, there was no winning—

to be all the fuck that I can be, you know?

had five straight gold albums—about a ten-year plateau—and then my sales just dropped off a steep fucking cliff. From being able to ship half a million records, suddenly I was only shipping

Once I had every trade certificate I could get at Corcoran, I enrolled in a two-year college program. It had been

That's what we want to hear, Spike," Ice said. "Keep pushing, man. Keep doing what you're doing. Stay in touch with Al P., and we'll be there to help you when you come before the board.

Analysis of the history of any successful organization will show that it owed its success to a team of people whose styles, behavior, and needs were different but who could work together. Although organizational success is usually attributed to one person, behind that person is a team that enabled him to perform well.

Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.