Successful Quotes - Page 19

• For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  True Happiness, Failing, Enough

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• The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, People, Lazy

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2013

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• The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

  Harvey Mackay

  Men, Firsts, Salesperson

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• A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Done, Lord

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• Because we are God's children...we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer.... Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an "I hope this will work"...attitude. Instead...prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That's the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs.

  Jim Cymbala

  Children, Attitude, Prayer

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• The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

  Camille Paglia

  Clients, Environment, Trouble

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• The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

  John Chancellor

  People, Sticks, Successful People

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• The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

  Donald Knuth

  Essentials, Tools, Ingredients

  Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.398, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Body, Toady, Busy

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• To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

  George Soros

  Hands, Needs, Leisure

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• People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.

  Ian Schrager

  People, Want

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• I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

  Andy Grove

  Believe, People, Business Success

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• The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Secret, Busy

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• The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

  John Stuart Mill

  Two, Fidelity, Enterprise

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.184

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• I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Trying, Pieces, Want

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• The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

  Sherry Lansing

  Differences, Sticks, Failing

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• Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.

  Tony Robbins

  Powerful, Emotional, Storm

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

  Alan Page

  Football, Player, Over You

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• Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.

  Kirk Caldwell

  Believe, Cities, Creating

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• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Emotional

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• I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Winning, Perfect

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• If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.

  Debora Spar

  Mother, Real, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

  Chris Lehane

  People, Expectations, Needs

  "Crisis PR Expert: BP Disaster is 'Unspinnable'". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 3, 2010.

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• At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

  William T. Vollmann

  Fiction, Flaws, Written

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• You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

  Niall Ferguson

  Struggle, Debtors, World

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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