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Success Quotes


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


"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."


"What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver."


"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended."


"The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target."


"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."


"I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me."


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


"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."


"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."


"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that."


"Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling."


"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."


"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."


"Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success."


"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."


"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."


"The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up."


"To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success."


"Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission."


"If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful."


"The best way to compete is to get defeat."


"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."


"The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation."


"Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success."


"Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results."


"Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory."


"I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well."


"So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful."


"There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success."


"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed."


"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents."


"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."
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