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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Thinking, Safe, Measurement

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• I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

  Jim Highsmith

  People, Answers, Projects

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• I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Government, Citizens

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• I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, School, Men

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• The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

  Tony Blair

  Determination, Giving Money, Needs

  "Treasury reveals how little tax the super-rich pay" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

  Brooke Shields

  Thinking, Healthy, Female

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

  Brooke Shields

  Might, Easy, Okay

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

  Brooke Shields

  Struggle, Mean, Life Is

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.

  Ja Rule

  Dream, Fashion, Drug

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Age, Survivor, Successful Women

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

  Alan Thicke

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.

  Jake Heggie

  Real, Emotional, Journey

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.

  Marcelo Claure

  Winning, Special, Flavor

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

  Thomas Keller

  Thinking, Two, Cookbook

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.

  Jim Shaw

  Artist, Thinking, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Jobs, Imagination, Focus

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

  Roger Federer

  Giving, Important, Stubborn

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• The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.

  Val Kilmer

  People, Lucky, Actors

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• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  Val Kilmer

  Hard Work, Home, Rivers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

  Afrojack

  People, Guy, Okay

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• I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

  Willie Aames

  Successful Marriage, Felt, Ifs

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• Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Morning, Creating, Starting Over

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.385, Thomas Nelson Inc

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