Quotes About Identity

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

I wouldn't say I am a businessman.

I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman.

I'm not sure I really am an entrepreneur. I'm not much of a businessman. I know I'm not a marketing guy. I do have an entrepreneurial lineage, though.

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

I never had a proper modeling career. It was not something I succeeded in. Once I started acting, that's when the fashion world kind of embraced me.

We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.

I was born to be a basketball player, not to be a guy who succeeds inside Goldman Sachs.

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

One's perception of themselves has a much bigger role than has been acknowledged to determine who succeeds and who does not.

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

The secret to success is to be yourself.

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.

Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.