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Success Quotes


"Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful."


"The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it."


"There is little success where there is little laughter."


"Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same."


"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."


"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."


"I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material."


"I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris."


"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."


"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal."


"And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think."


"Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors."


"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."


"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."


"When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you."


"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."


"Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."


"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."


"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."


"Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed."



"We've been probably to some degree too successful."


"The primary factor in a successful attack is speed."


"Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure."


"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."


"I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far."


"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success."


"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success."


"I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill."


"You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right."


"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."


"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."



"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."


"You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked."


"What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S."


"Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see."


"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about."
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