Top 55 Successful People Quotes

I’m not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won’t be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It’s just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that’s something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

When you are happy, successful people want to be around you.

When you’re successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do other things, but we could never end up doing them, so casting directors were just like, ‘Enough of them! Don’t touch the ‘Glee’ kids, because you can’t use them!’

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That’s where my heart lies.

I always tell young people: When you meet someone successful, ask them as many questions as you can. Because there’s nothing more successful people love – nothing more – than talking about their successes, and you can learn a lot in that.

The people I coach are very successful people, so it’s very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it’s trivial and not worth it, we still want to win – because we love winning. It’s a very deep habit.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was ‘too crazy to work.’

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners – they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public’s attention to important work in economics.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

It’s always great to know successful people like Canelo, especially those that make our country proud.

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

I don’t hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who’ve been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

I’ve found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Truly successful people don’t rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?

Everybody on my team – I couldn’t do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you’re successful is you hire really successful people.

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don’t understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks.

On television, it’s all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.

The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school.

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven’t followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

People really love ‘Madea’ movies and get a kick out of them. They’re phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one’s coming out.

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I’ve worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

The most successful people are so original.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they’re successful, people get bored.

We’re all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.

The most successful people in comedy do seem to be the most funny.

I have gotten disturbed at… some of the Democrats’ anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it’s very counter-productive.

It’s almost as if the most successful people don’t put too much effort into being so brilliant at what they do, that they’re just doing extraordinary things. The truth, however, is they’re putting more and more effort into maintaining their levels of excellence.

Successful people breed success.

I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have – and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

The most successful people I’ve worked with, like the Rolling Stones – people of a different, kind of legendary caliber – have such great, warm energy.

I don’t have the answer to finding the balance because I think, well, maybe successful people don’t switch off.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don’t really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me – for being so confounded normal.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.