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Success Quotes


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


"The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness."


"The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply."


"A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that."


"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."


"Every shuttle mission's been successful."


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


"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."


"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 don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."


"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."


"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."


"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"


"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."


"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."


"There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training."


"They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen."



"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door."


"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."


"Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!"


"Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess."


"That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race."


"Success is across the roaring river, the brave shall cross it."


"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."


"I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?"


"No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life."


"Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success."


"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."


"Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years."


"Your successful past will block your visions of the future."


"There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for."


"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."


"What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster."


"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."
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