Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

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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

• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Success

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• 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

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

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Balance

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Success
  • Me
  • Always

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

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Success
  • Son
  • Born

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Failure

• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Money
  • Success
  • Past

• Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Together
  • Success

• I do everything that everybody else does.

  

  Vanna White
  • Everything
  • Everybody Else

• All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Space

• I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Black
  • Lying
  • Innocent

• I was driving by an auto auction one day, and they were auctioning off a beautiful Hispano-Suiza. I started bidding even though I hadn't even signed up with the officials. The last bid was $50,000, and it was mine. And I thought, 'My God, what have I done? I've never spent more than $500 in my life.' That was the first one.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Success
  • Failure