Quotes About Success

It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.