Quotes About Success

Now, whatever, either on good or upon bad grounds, tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind.

All things come to him who hustles while he waits.

It was time to move on, which is why I'm now living here in the land of the cuckoo clock. Didn't someone once say, "all successful careers in finance end up in Switzerland?

It was from the success, not from the justice, of their enterprises, that they expected the honors of a triumph.

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

neither of them could match Stanley Kubrick's success in rendering the genre so utterly cinematic. Doctor Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and, especially, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) demonstrate a darkly comic vision and a suspicion of technology counterpointed by a determination to explore the formal limits of filmmaking and its apparatuses.

Japanese anime such as Akira (Otomo, 1988), Oneamisu No Tsubasa (Wings of Honneamise, Yamaga, 1987/1994) and Kokaku kidotai (Ghost in the Shell, Oshii, 1995), and strange live-action movies such as Ganheddo (Gunhed, Harada, 1989), Tetsuo (The Iron Man, Tsukamoto, 1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (Tsukamoto, 1991) found international success.

I learned an enormous lesson about the value of relationships in doing business. In business interactions it is not just who you know, but who you have taking that extra step to vouch for you that can make all the difference between success and failure.

We are measured not only by our triumphs, young man, but by our persistence. If we fail, we must try harder.

Qué representa esa rueda? —preguntó Pentecost. —Es la rueda de la fortuna, señor —contestó el padre. —¿Y qué significa eso, buen hombre? —Pues que aunque un hombre alcance fama y fortuna, puede volver a caer en la miseria. O al revés. Significa que la vida es como una rueda, señor, que no cesa de girar. Y nos enseña que debemos ser humildes, señor. Pues aunque lleguemos muy alto, podemos caer muy bajo.

the two men left the building with a sense of achievement, counterbalanced by desire.

There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.

Money does not give a trader more comfort, because, rich or poor, he can make mistakes and it is never comfortable to be wrong.

No, sir, nobody can make big money on what someone else tells him to do.

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.