Quotes About Success

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.