Quotes About Success

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.