Quotes About Success

We broke up in '91, but we didn't fade out, we didn't burn ourselves out, we were on pause for 26 years. We stopped at the height, we were No. 1 and we just broke up.

Drake doesn't realize, in many ways, he was like the big brother I never had. He set the example and paved the way for me to be myself. Now, whether I'm at the Grammys or whether I'm here or there or whatever, he'll show me love... People don't realize what that's like, what that means.

I know someone might look at a creative person's job and think it's pretty fun. It is. It's the best thing in the world, but it's also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

Everything I am is cause of Paris. She like paved the way for me. A girl like me who is literally famous for nothing - Paris Hilton taught us how to make that a business, you know what I mean?

Conor changed the game and he paved the way. He did those big numbers and I'm one of the guys who is going to carry that forward.

In the beginning, because of the Pavement thing, we were able to sell a certain amount of records. We were able to sell not such a great amount of records, but enough to live on. So there was no incentive to do what didn't come naturally.

People like Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut are really paving the way for successful women.

I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.

Usually I try not to pay attention to the charts, because I don't want to be like, 'Damn, I came in at Number 237.'

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

As single-mom female inventor, there was no path for that, so really I don't think people took me seriously for a really long time. Certainly the Miracle Mop being my first successful product, people started to pay attention, and I guess now they really pay attention.

I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.