Richard Branson Quotes
My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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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.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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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.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.
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It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
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The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
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Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
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If I can't act, I would go to college and maybe be a veterinarian.
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I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.
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I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
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When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.
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My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
