Success Quotes

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

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

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.