Top 680 Successful Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Successful Quotes from famous people such as Michael Dell, Louise Penny, Samin Nosrat, Margrethe Vestager, Orison Swett Marden, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
Michael Dell
I’ve seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that’s just tragic.
Louise Penny
A successful shrimp boil requires layering ingredients into the pot so that everything is done cooking at once. A carefully timed choreography dictates the order in which ingredients are added to ensure no one has to eat raw potatoes or chewy shrimp.
Samin Nosrat
You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.
Margrethe Vestager
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Orison Swett Marden
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
I think many women are successful in their professional lives – they are making the money and all that – but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven’t paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.
Viola Davis
If you read the script, and the character’s got something in it that you relate to, then I am keen. But I really think, a lot of the time, my successful auditions are those where I really care about the characters.
Georgina Campbell
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David Thoreau
When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
Daniel Kahneman
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.
Sia
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Edward de Bono
The reason we’re successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Freddie Mercury
I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.
Elon Musk
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton
A successful person isn’t necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
Ray Kurzweil
Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.
Joe Rogan
I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I’m making ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people.
Ryan Gosling
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth
If you’re an actor, even a successful one, you’re still waiting for the phone to ring.
Kevin Bacon
Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn – what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.
Tom Seaver
I’m going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.
Ajay Devgan
I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.
Kevin Hart
I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.
Calvin Klein
Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you’re likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.
Andrew Cherng
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
Brendon Burchard
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters
I’ve always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were succ

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
Ben Stein
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
Steve Harvey
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Donna Summer
There are a lot of people who think that’s what’s needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
Amy Tan
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
Russell Simmons
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the ‘action generation’ whose motto is ‘do more but feel less.’
Alexander Lowen
Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.
Mahathir Mohamad
My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We’re building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.
Dikembe Mutombo
There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I’ve seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it’s a film that wasn’t as successful as you thought it would be, I’ve never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.
Ed Speleers
I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin
In Mumbai, it’s almost like Hollywood. They can appeal to different segments and still be successful. There are multiplex audiences to whom you can showcase any lifestyle. But in Tamil cinema, we need to satisfy everybody, whether urban or rural.
Suriya
I want to be successful, but I don’t really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
Shania Twain
If you never give up, you’ll be successful.
Dan O’Brien
Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.
Richard Branson
There’s so much going on in the world. There’s so much information being thrown at us – so many things are being sold to us, and we’re being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
Michael Fassbender
I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
Clint Eastwood
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
It’s hard to make something collaboratively. That’s the challenge. Sometimes you’re successful.
Marguerite Moreau
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
Chris Hayes
I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, ‘No, now you’ve got to go and get a proper job. We’ve indulged you long enough.’ I don’t think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.
Kelly Brook
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Richard Branson
Some of the bitcoin community come from that kind of anarchistic, libertarian view. But, one reason why I think Ripple has been very successful is because we work with the system.
Brad Garlinghouse
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Benjamin Disraeli
I can’t worry about what I’m doing to be the National Player of the Year; it’s what am I doing to help my team be successful?
Jalen Brunson