Success Quotes
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But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
Banksy
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.
Anthony Trollope
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We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.
Luke Nosek
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Success comes in cans, not can'ts.
Brian Tracy
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Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.
Aja Brown
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Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]
Joanne Rowling
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
Albert Einstein
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You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.
Elizabeth Hurley
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
Joan Jett
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None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
Kelly Masterson
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno of Elea
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To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow.
Hal Elrod
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You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.
Napoleon Hill
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Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.
Chris Carmack
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
Lou Holtz
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If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.
Jorge Bucay
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
Thomas A. Edison
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The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
Mark Wahlberg
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I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.
Alia Atkinson
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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.
Charles M. Schwab