Quotes About Success

i won't be happy until i'm famous like God

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough. —JOE E. LEWIS

Trying your best and feeling good about yourself is more important than winning prizes.

Trump seemed to have learned a lesson from his travails: his personal brand mattered more than what was on his balance sheet, the projection of strength and success was more significant than any actual fact set underneath.

Giuliani was never paid for his work beyond some expenses, at Trump's insistence; the former mayor's associate and radio cohost, Maria Ryan, tried unsuccessfully to set up a large daily fee for Giuliani, who Trump said shouldn't be paid "a dime" unless there was success, and later sought a consulting fee for herself, as well as for Trump to grant the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, most significantly, a "general pardon" to Giuliani.

You've worked too hard to let an opportunity like this slip through your fingers—read the script.

What I wish I had known, age twenty-one, as I cycled away from the results board towards the meadow by the river in Cambridge, where I would throw stones into the water and cry, is that nobody ever asks you what degree you got. It ceases to matter the moment you leave university. That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.

What I wish I had known, aged twenty-one, as I cycled away from the results board towards the meadow by the river in Cambridge, where I would throw stones into the water and cry, is that nobody ever asks you what degree you got. It ceases to matter the moment you leave university. That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Stephen Covey's sixth habit of highly successful people, "Seek first to understand—then to be understood," applies to highly successful business developers.

You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it.

If we think of defeat, that's what we will get. If we are undecided then nothing will happen for us. We must just pick something great to do, and then do it. Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that's what we will get.