Quotes About Success

My whole adult life I've worked toward one goal—the success of our business. But I might as well have been chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. What I was looking for, striving for, wasn't really there. Meaning I've been measuring the value of my life all wrong. Then I met you and realized that being a somebody isn't nearly as wonderful as having a somebody. And being somebody to somebody else.

We were two girls who got lucky, and luck's not a skill that anyone can learn

There were always a million ways a job could go wrong, but only one way for it to go right.

I don't play any game that I can't win.

Knock 'em dead!" I was already inside when Liz yelled after me, "But not literally!

Pero el éxito era una receta poco compatible con el autoengaño.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being cheated.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

Ambition, while there was nothing wrong with it, was still a far cry from power. Ambition got you out of bed to make money. Power meant you could make money without ever leaving bed.

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

Each of these ubiquitous marketplaces has found a way to succeed not only in making markets thick, uncongested, and safe, but also in making them simple to use.

Faced with complicated choices like this, many parents understandably played it safe. About 80 percent of the children were assigned to the school that their parents had listed first. On paper, the system looked hugely successful, with most participants appearing to have received their first choices. But the reality was very different: many of those parents were simply getting safe, strategic choices.

And by way of concluding our study of natural atheology: none of the arguments we've examined has prospects for success; all are unacceptable. There are arguments we haven't considered, of course; but so far the indicated conclusion is that natural atheology doesn't work.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.

But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be said for patience and hard work.

no es necesario nacer en la buena vida para llegar a tener una.

Nothing said "successful business" like an old, dusty, busted, duct-taped taxidermied alligator.

Es un hombre de negocios. Sus ambiciones pueden valorarse en dinero. Eso no resulta nada elevado