Quotes About Success

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Now ask the Divine to show you how many emotions from these outside sources are stealing energy from or dumping energy into your emotional field. Ask about the effects of any related syndrome. How is that syndrome affecting your work? Your career success? Your ability to motivate, make a difference, or be yourself at work? As you watch and perhaps sense the impact of this process, decide if you are willing to change the pattern of the syndrome.

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

The things money could buy weren't the reward; the reward was to feel lifted above everyone else,

When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

George's father was a bus driver and he was planning to buy him his own bus.

I respected him enormously for standing by me when he knew it might ruin his career, just as he was on the brink of success: he had a streak of fundamental decency that went far beyond simply observing the convention of the day and I loved him for it.

events. First, just after I sat my finals at art college, the boys' breakthrough arrived: after almost two months of agonising, they heard that George Martin wanted them to sign a contract with Parlophone Records. We

Anyone who can relax, clear their mind, and envision being different in some way—such as more successful, funny, healthy, wealthy, or wise—can quantum jump. To initiate a quantum jump requires keeping an open mind that you can experience another reality. It is important that you are able to sincerely desire and feel a connection to another reality, envisioning some way of making a connection with it through a bridge, a door, a window or a handshake.

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Contemporary books do not keep. The quality in them which makes for their success is the first to go; they turn over night. – Cyril Connolly

Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers, and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rats, dry rot, and death-watch beetles are tunnelling away, till, at the very moment of completion, it is ready to fall down.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise.

ealth you can do anything you set your mind

You're a success because you've done what you meant to do. You're a success by your own standard and it's your own standard that matters.

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky I did because I probably wouldn't be where I am had I not.

Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mission to be an Asian-American version of that.