Success Quotes
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If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
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For so many people, it's very hard to feel okay with success, because success is not cool. It supposedly tarnishes your thing; it ruins little pockets of scenes and the self-importance that comes from thinking you're the only people in your town that are doing something.
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Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.
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Be genuinely grateful for the success of others. A generous spirit is the surest sign of a kind heart.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.
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People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
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The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
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The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.
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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.
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Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
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For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.
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The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
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Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.
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This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.
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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
