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Success Quotes


"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."


"Failure is not fatal nor that you are finished but the result of unfinished product waiting to be reproduced, reprocessed and polished. Failure is that you have learned your omissions, mistakes or what you did not do right or well at the last attempt. You can transform failure into a fortune by dealing with what went wrong. Failure is only a product of uncorrected mistakes."


"I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to."


"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."


"Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand."


"Your actions should reflect what you feel your life should reflect. All action should be to better your life. Your life is your actions, not your inaction. It is not what you say you will do or what others think of what you are doing. It is all the positive and negative things you have done in your life. Act positively for a positive life."


"The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper."


"The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band."


"The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful."


"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."


"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."


"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"


"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."


"If you rely on others to accomplish something in life, you'll end up accomplishing nothing."


"I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had."


"The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works."


"There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things."


"Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall."


"Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift."


"And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name."


"Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress."


"Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion."



"If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful."


"Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action."


"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."


"I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive."


"Persistence drives the achievement of the desired outcome for reality."


"As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement."


"To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective."


"Sex-centered magazines litter our newsstands . . . each edition trying to escape new laws from the bottom of the sewers. We put lids on sewer holes. Ought we not to do something about the pornography which is spewing out a polluted river of filth which can destroy us faster than any chemical pollution we seem so worried about?7"


"Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you."
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