Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You’re going to make decisions, you’re going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely.
Success is easy to take for granted.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
I always say that what’s between you and your success is yourself.
I don’t think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it’s a success.
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said ‘Success is primarily luck anyway.’ And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant – so who am I to argue with him!
The secret to podcast success is sticking with it and making it fun for yourself.
My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle… I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible.
You weren’t born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success… Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.
I’m still sometimes convinced that I’m just making all of this up and I’m actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there’s always the fear: ‘What about the next one?’
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what’s involved. But often, each company’s approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, ‘Just do it.’
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she’s walking in the door, it’s so powerful – it’s about gaining control of their lives and situations.
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that’s changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.
The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, ‘Mr. 3000’ for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.
The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren’t getting paid to do it.
My father used to say to me, ‘The only limit to your success is your own imagination.’ I actually believed that – like, I’m still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater.
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
Success is a completely abstract thing – it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that’s something we talk about a lot.
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before – only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won’t be corrupted. I’ll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
As far as success, I have always felt that success is determined by competitiveness.
In China, you just don’t have the space for civil society and independent discourse and free media that you do in India. That’s why India’s success is so important as the world’s largest democracy.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.
I want you to know that focusing on someone else’s failure or success is the wrong way to live.
Success is not judged by just success in a particular championship.
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.
Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate ‘team sport,’ in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.
To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Success is for creeps.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
There’s a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.
We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.
Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.
The secret to success is to be yourself.
The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
The true success is the person who invented himself.
If success is measured in maximising your potential and giving 100 per cent to what you do, enjoying it and making a good living then I’m very happy with what I’ve achieved. If other people wanted more than that from me, what could I do?
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you’re on ‘CBS This Morning’ or whether or not you make the local news station.
Your success is in your point of view. It’s your life that you’re talking about; it’s your observations. That’s the best lesson that I ever had.
I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.
My favorite model of success is when people say, ‘Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.’
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
