Successful Quotes

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

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.

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.