Top 100 Very Successful Quotes
#1. Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
Lou Holtz
#2. I've been very successful at negotiating debates.
Donald Trump
#3. To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren't very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.
Mark Emmert
#4. If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.
Kate Cary
#5. My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each
David Plotz
#6. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
Tony Robbins
#7. Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.
Fernando Alonso
#8. My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
Quentin Bryce
#9. I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.
Sushmita Sen
#10. I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
Ratan Tata
#11. If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Michael Porter
#12. I would assume everybody thinks they are a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Joe Flacco
#13. I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
Diana Ross
#14. If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
Johnny Ramone
#15. To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
Margaret Deland
#16. Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
Jerry Yang
#17. Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
Guy Spier
#18. If you look at Governor Romney's family, he's been very successful. He's built a great family, very committed to his wife.
Rick Scott
#19. To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
Sidney Sheldon
#20. He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.
Gena Rowlands
#21. The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market.
Chua Sock Koong
#22. I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
Bruce Barton
#23. In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.
Russ Feingold
#24. I loved Australia. I was very successful there.
Todd Barry
#25. I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
Elia Kazan
#26. I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.
Helen Hunt
#27. I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.
Michael Richard Stosic
#28. If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.
Steve Coogan
#29. The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.
Klaus Nomi
#30. It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.
James Roosevelt
#31. I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.
Joe Pantoliano
#32. The elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type.
Elena Ferrante
#33. My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
Marion Cotillard
#34. When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Morgan Freeman
#35. 'Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.
Aubrey O'Day
#36. I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.
Robert C. Merton
#37. I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
Rick Springfield
#38. My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.
Luke Bryan
#39. I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.'
Robert Herjavec
#40. Liverpool is a massive club and has obviously been very successful over the years.
Steven Gerrard
#41. Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.
Paul Russo
#42. People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
Richard Hofstadter
#44. A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.
Joey Lawrence
#45. I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
Boy George
#46. I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tre Cool
#47. It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.
Buzz Aldrin
#48. I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
Martha Stewart
#49. I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
Alan Dershowitz
#50. One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.
Tom Ford
#52. Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
Willem Dafoe
#53. Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique.
John Gimlette
#54. I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
Christopher Walken
#55. The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
Lawrence Welk
#56. I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.
Paris Hilton
#57. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler
#58. I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.
Stephen J. Cannell
#59. I've been extremely lucky in that I've been a very successful model for a long time. So now I'm an actress and a mother. I'm a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be - I've wanted to act since I was 14 - and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.
Jerry Hall
#60. Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
Carroll Quigley
#61. I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Jason Patric
#62. When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.
Michael Schumacher
#63. To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants - a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
Aldo Leopold
#64. I became very successful at a young age ... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
Claire Danes
#65. It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program ... So far this has been a very successful rehab.
Peter Hobson
#66. Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.
Elizabeth Gillies
#67. I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a young age. There was a lot of misplaced rage in high school towards me. My brothers and sisters identified it as bullying, but I didn't at the time.
Charlie Ebersol
#69. XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.
Mike McGavick
#70. First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
Barry Manilow
#71. I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
Rachel Weisz
#72. He kept looking for new experiences, and though he was very successful at everything he attempted, it did not bring him happiness. Remember this, success alone does not bring happiness. Nor does failure have to bring unhappiness.
Rohinton Mistry
#73. I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.
Steve Spurrier
#74. That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn.
Elena Ferrante
#75. Teach a child stress management and how to deal with his anger from very young and you will have one very successful child.
Timothy Pina
#76. I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.
John Engler
#77. A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.
Marie Avgeropoulos
#78. We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.
Jack Welch
#79. King Edward, who "smoke cigars, was addicted to and entente cordials, married a Sea King's daughter and invented appendicitis," pursued a policy of peace that "was very successful and culminated in the Great War to End War.
Jane Ridley
#80. Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
Francis Ford Coppola
#81. Very successful people say no to almost everything.
Warren Buffett
#82. I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.
William Boyd
#83. I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.
Gloria Stuart
#84. I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.
Garth Greenwell
#85. If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.
Evan Williams
#86. I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
Keith Miller
#87. People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
Patrice Motsepe
#88. My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe
#89. Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.
April Bryan
#90. Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
Gary Kemp
#91. You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
Dan Hawkins
#92. I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.
Chico Hamilton
#93. I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.
Jaime Pressly
#94. The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#95. You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
Tadashi Yanai
#96. Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
Treat Williams
#98. My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
A. J. Foyt
#99. If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Barbara Sher
#100. Atkins diet is not a "quick diet" as it is often presented. It is more a way of life. In obese individuals with cardiovascular disease, high blood sugar or triglycerides, or persons with epilepsy Atkins diet shows up as very successful long-term solution.
Jenna Lopez
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