Successful Quotes
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To be real successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish; then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.
David T. Kearns
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler
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Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.
Vivek Wadhwa
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
Diane Ackerman
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In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.
Saul Leiter
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.
Wajdi Mouawad
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
Stanley Kubrick
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
Ernest Hemingway
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
Ted Nelson
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Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.
Earl Nightingale
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Mika Brzezinski
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I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
Seth Godin
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I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.
Bob DuPuy
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I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.
Valerie Jarrett
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You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.
Steve Garvey
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The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.
Molly Bloom
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The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"
Cynthia Nixon
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I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
Helen Gurley Brown
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The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.
Michael Steinhardt