Successful Quotes
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Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.
William S. Burroughs
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A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.
George Gilder
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Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.
Asher D
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I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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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Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
Dalai Lama
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The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.
Jessica Livingston
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One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful.
Napoleon Hill
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People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
William James
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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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It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.
Jill Soloway
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Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional
Carmine Gallo
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You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
Neal H. Moritz
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When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"
Scott Aukerman
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
Andy Rooney
