Success Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.
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I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.
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When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.
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I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
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I don’t expect success. I prepare for it.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.
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The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
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I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
