Top 100 Quotes About Doing Well
#1. People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
Suze Orman
#2. What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.
Tom Stoppard
#3. Mrs. Grey, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. Lift your hips. His eyes glow summer storm gray.
E.L. James
#4. One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.
Jim Rohn
#5. There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#6. When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.
Marisa Miller
#7. Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.
Don Cheadle
#8. I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.
Frank Fairfield
#9. The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.
Cobi Jones
#10. I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
Peter Lynch
#11. I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
Wayne Allard
#12. Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
Barry Hannah
#13. The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.
Bill Maher
#14. One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
Alain De Botton
#15. If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.
Lizzo
#16. Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#17. I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Vikram Seth
#18. An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.
Peter Medawar
#19. I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I'm doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.
Wendy Ely
#20. As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive 'the good life' or 'doing well' to be the same thing as 'being happy.
Aristotle.
#21. Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'
Paul Cleave
#22. You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
E.W. Howe
#23. Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea
Dennis Prager
#24. In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
L.M. Montgomery
#25. The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
John Green
#26. They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.
Matthew Perry
#27. Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras
#28. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
#29. Anyone worth doing, is worth doing well.
Emma Chase
#30. In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#31. My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.
Eli Manning
#32. Overall, she seems to be doing well for her age, but she looks like one of those dried apple dolls and my nursing gut tells me she is one good sneeze away from a rapid response team.
Annelise Ryan
#33. If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.
Richard Grant
#34. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
Jill Sobule
#35. Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney
#36. If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.
Dilip Shanghvi
#37. Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.
Jeff Abbott
#38. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
Veronica Roth
#39. The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
Herbert Ratner
#40. I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.
Sarah Steele
#41. Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.
Isla Dewar
#43. You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.
Elena Ferrante
#44. The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
Magic Johnson
#45. There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.
E.B. White
#46. Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
LaToya London
#47. I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#48. If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
E.L. James
#49. Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.
Aristotle.
#50. School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you're the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well.
Lauren Oliver
#51. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.
Jane Levy
#52. What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with ... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.
Walter Dean Myers
#53. You are doing well if you are not weary in well doing
Saji Ijiyemi
#54. In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.
Alex Shoumatoff
#55. I will say further, as an officer of an enormous international conglomerate, that nobody who is doing well in this economy ever even wonders waht is really going on.
We are chimpanzees. We are orangutans.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
Baba Kalyani
#57. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen
#58. For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.
Curtis Stone
#59. When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
Yuvraj Singh
#60. Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama
#62. I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing ... well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.
Mark Lanegan
#63. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.
John Travolta
#64. Bronco Rick Perry is the first candidate I've ever heard say he's not doing well because he's sleepy. You know, we criticized George W. Bush a lot, but there was one thing he was very disciplined about, and that was getting his full eight years of sleep.
David Letterman
#65. When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.
Barry Zito
#66. I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.
Layne Staley
#67. You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
Rafael Nadal
#68. You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
Steve Burke
#69. We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
Studs Terkel
#71. Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
Pearl S. Buck
#72. If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.
Carl Hart
#73. The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#74. Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
Elias Schwartz
#75. I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.
Tommy Hilfiger
#76. Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that.
Michael Steger
#77. If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
Keith Henson
#78. Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.
Pawan Mishra
#79. I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Vera Wang
#80. If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
Jerry Lewis
#81. If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
Magic Johnson
#82. Everyone makes the best decisions they can with the information they have available at the time. If you get them right half the time, you're doing well.
Chris Broyhill
#83. The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Marge Piercy
#84. A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn
#85. Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
#86. I'm very proud of 'Calvary.' It's been doing well; it has legs. It's no easy ride. It packs a punch, this one.
Brendan Gleeson
#87. How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or so, I'm doing well.
Madeleine L'Engle
#88. Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that's kind of the point of them.
Jojo Moyes
#89. When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
Arabella Weir
#90. Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz
#91. The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.
Cass Sunstein
#92. Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.
Tracy Morgan
#93. The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
Virat Kohli
#94. The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.
Elliot Aronson
#95. But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can.
Ross W. Greene
#96. I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Robert Sternberg
#97. If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
Matt Gonzalez
#98. Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.
Jonah Hill
#99. Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
Barry Ritholtz
#100. Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.
Thomas Friedman
