Quotes About Success

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you're a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! - you've succeeded. And then it's "How FAST can I get them to laugh?" "How LONG can I get them to laugh?", "How HARD can I get them to laugh?". And then it becomes: "Can I laugh at something that makes them uncomfortable?", "Can I get them to laugh at something that challenges their beliefs?

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

El único éxito de verdad consiste en no morirse, en vivir para siempre, cosa que de momento no parece que esté a nuestro alcance. El éxito es una cosa realmente estupenda, pero la única realidad es el fracaso.

Artistic prejudices are always the most difficult to root out. Critics - whose duty should be to see beyond the pretensions of artists and the public's passing fancies - often allow themselves to be persuaded by the way authors present their work, by what they say they have achieved, or else are guided by whatever has been a wild success - usually in order to take the opposing view - and which had been damningly labelled 'popular.

Una de las características del hombre es que nunca renuncia a nada que haya probado, si lo ha probado con impunidad o con éxito, tanto da.

Say what's in it for the boss. Explain how having a conversation is in your boss's interest: "I want to make this initiative a great success. To do that I need a little more help in making sure I understand the logic well enough to execute effectively." Of course for this approach to work, you have to be open to learning.

I'm sure we'd all like to move on quickly. At the same time, I imagine it is even more important to all of us that this work. I would very much like this initiative to succeed but don't yet feel confident in my ability to pull it off. Specifically, it would help to spell out how we might answer a couple of the objections I can imagine coming our way. For example. . . .

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

Go the extra mile, it's rarely crowded.

Des shrugged. He didn't believe much in equality. Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

Sometimes the only difference between those who attain and those who don't is perseverance.

The only hope we have is that we can pay off on our failures