Quotes About Success

I have led the pro league scoring for flve years and that's honor enough for anybody.

I'm not a politician, I'm a pro golfer.

I turned pro at 18 and it took me 20 years to get to world No1.

I'm a Pro Bowl defensive end.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Frankly, I've had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that doesn't matter. I'm looking only on championship probability. I just feel like I haven't accomplished much unless I can somehow get that done.

I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

I know firsthand that the characteristics of a great engineer - problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of technology, and a results-driven mindset - are the exact same things that any executive, in any industry, must have in order to succeed.

One can't be a successful investor without a healthy dose of confidence. To commit your own and others' hard-earned capital requires conviction, and conviction requires confidence. But as with fine brandy or coffee ice cream, too much of a good thing can be problematic.

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

When I was not doing well, I was just focussing on my processes. And when I am doing well, I am still focussing on my processes.

Going through processes as a team and getting better each and every night, that's what you do it for - to eventually win games as a group.

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.