Quotes About Success

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

I am rich because I sell a lot of books, but it's not my drive.

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.

I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.

No one can establish what selling out is.

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.