Successful Quotes
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Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.
Brian Tracy
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The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.
Oprah Winfrey
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It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.
Chris Cornell Audioslave
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Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.
J. B. Smoove
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I know Goldilocks quite well. That's what I call Phil Collins. He's been more successful than me and a better drummer than me but I still got a head full of hair. So there.
Graeme Edge The Moody Blues
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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
Napoleon Hill
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To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
Walter Matthau
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The most successful people are so original.
Idina Menzel
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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
Garry Winogrand
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Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.
Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
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I think the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.
Sabeer Bhatia
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
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The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.
Jon Bon Jovi
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
Harold Prince
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.
Barack Obama
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Successful people in real estate are nicest people you can know.
Wendy Alexander
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
Walter Kirn
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Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
Lady Gaga
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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.
Dan Gilbert