James Surowiecki Quotes

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

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• Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Success
  • Culture
  • Success Is

• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Know

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• The victor belongs to the spoils.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Success
  • Victor
  • Spoils

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• Radio is for driving.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Driving
  • Radio

• No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • History
  • Think
  • Success

• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Starting

• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • She
  • Pretty

• I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Why
  • Success

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Try
  • Strength

• Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

  

  Akhenaton
  • Success
  • Competitor
  • Crowned

• My whole career - I have been really lucky.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Really
  • Lucky

• I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Couple

• John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Period
  • Rose
  • Stock

• I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Success
  • Driving