Quotes About A Successful Person

#1. A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

#3. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. 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

#5. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

#6. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump

#7. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#8. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. 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

#10. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something.

Todd Stocker

#12. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

Penelope Trunk

#14. Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Kemmons Wilson

#16. It is better to be a failed happy person than to be a successful underachiever.

Laksh Kishore

#17. We need to know ourselves better so that we can realize what we really want in our life. I think that the first condition for a person to be in a successful relationship is to be happy with the person he or she is, in other words to love themselves.

Tarkan

#18. I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Kristen Stewart

#19. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas A. Edison

#20. I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.

Riccardo Tisci

#21. If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

Earl Nightingale

#22. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

#23. Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.

Rajneesh

#24. You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

Konosuke Matsushita

#25. I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

Ferdie Pacheco

#26. I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

Cindy McCain

#27. The point is this: the successful person in any field takes time out to confer with himself or herself. Leaders use solitude to put the pieces of a problem together, to work out solutions, to plan, and, in one phrase, to do their superthinking.

David J. Schwartz

#28. Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person.

Debasish Mridha

#29. I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

James L. Brooks

#30. Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

Craig Venter

#31. Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

#32. Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. The more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.

Darrel Ray

#34. Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them ... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Sean Covey

#35. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done

Mike Krzyzewski

#36. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Fannie Flagg

#37. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Mark Twain

#38. I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.

Ivanka Trump

#39. Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Rob Lowe

#40. You have to have a product or service that offers customers a unique advantage over the competition. Some people think it has to be price, but only one person can have the lowest price, and the person with the lowest price isn't necessarily the most successful.

Cameron Johnson

#41. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

Michael Bassey Johnson

#42. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Magic Johnson

#43. It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

James Sinegal

#44. If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

Monique Coleman

#45. If you are a "now-person", you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a "now-person" and do it now!

Israelmore Ayivor

#46. Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Mario Batali

#47. A successful person will never use the word 'no', 'I cannot' or 'it is impossible

Sunday Adelaja

#48. If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#49. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Francis Collins

#50. A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
By John Maxwell

John C. Maxwell

#51. A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.

Maddy Malhotra

#52. Persistent work always brings a person successful results

Sunday Adelaja

#53. I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

Colin Greenwood

#54. A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Mark Nepo

#55. Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

Derek Sivers

#56. When you are discussing a successful coach," sports psychologist Bruce Ogilvie once said, not of Ramsay but of the entire profession, "you are not necessarily drawing the profile of an entirely healthy person.

David Halberstam

#57. Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person

Diyar Harraz

#58. Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Eldridge Cleaver

#59. Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#60. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#61. Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#62. There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

Mallory Ortberg

#63. A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

Rick Warren

#64. I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Scott Turow

#65. 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

#66. The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

S. Truett Cathy

#67. You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Erica Albright

#68. When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Ross Mathews

#69. Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

#70. It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...

Vedang Sati

#71. A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to

Sunday Adelaja

#72. You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.

Amit Kalantri

#73. I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

King Hussein I

#74. If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Melinda Gates

#75. A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

Jay Samit

#76. Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."

T. Harv Eker

#77. The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.

Maxwell Maltz

#78. In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.

R. Keith Sawyer

#79. It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.

Barbra Streisand

#80. He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.

Hanya Yanagihara

#81. There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

Helen Mirren

#82. Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go ... and that's one of the reasons they're successful.

Alex Trebek

#83. You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.

Rick Heinrichs

#84. Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Jessica Lange

#85. We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It's a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.

Todrick Hall

#86. How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#87. One advantage of hierarchical, process-laden organizations is that it's easy to figure out with whom you need to talk: Just look for the right box on the right chart, and you've got your person. But the steady state of a successful Internet Century venture is chaos.

Eric Schmidt

#88. The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#89. I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.

Buzz Aldrin

#90. If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self-esteem is low.

Maddy Malhotra

#91. I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

T.I.

#92. Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her

Israelmore Ayivor

#93. To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

Hale Irwin

#94. To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

Susan B. Anthony

#95. There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

Nicole Haislett

#96. It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

Frederick Lenz

#97. Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Daymond John

#98. COMMON SENSE CONCLUSION: Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and effectively manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing conditions of our times.

Lee Johnson

#99. If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

T. Harv Eker

#100. Say an A&R person wants me to do this type of song because they feel it is going to work on the radio, I guarantee you that unless the song is real, there is nothing wrong with having success and I want to be successful. That is why I am, but I do it my own way.

Shane Bunting