Ethel Merman Quotes

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

Ethel Merman

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• Show Business

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• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Always
  • Succeed
  • Doctor

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • Strong
  • Passion
  • Succeed

• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Always
  • Win
  • Succeed

• We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Desire

• Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Up
  • Succeed

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Succeed

• Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Future
  • Succeed

• Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Succeed
  • Finger
  • Bomb

• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Religion
  • Emotions
  • Succeed

• Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Success
  • Succeed
  • Get More

• You've got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream...kept me going.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Dream
  • Focus
  • Decision

• I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Business
  • Shows

• He stays in the game. He knows the scoreboard, the situation. He knows the game and he's energetic back there. He wants you to succeed, to do well out there.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Game
  • Succeed
  • Scoreboard

• A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Person
  • Succeed

• The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Sleep
  • Silence
  • Grass

• True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Moral
  • Choices
  • Authority

• I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Devil
  • Rays
  • Nicholson

• When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Succeed
  • Show Business