Successful Quotes - Page 20

• It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Adventure, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Track, Mind, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to society, any cost to workers. They've got a lot of competition and have influenced people to follow their model through simply providing a model that is so successful at making profits.

  Liza Featherstone

  Offering, People, Competition

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• Not careers alone make people happy. A successful professional life and joy in work are certainly a part of it, but I couldn't be happy without a fulfilling private life.

  Kristina Schroder

  Careers, People, Joy

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• The problem is that we as a society simply accept these unrealistic standards: that you have to be thin to be perfect, to be beautiful, to be successful at work and to have a good relationship. And it is making us sick. This self-loathing is crippling women.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Self, Perfect

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Honest, Behavior, Tricks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Expression, Names

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

  Herbert Hoover

  May, Success In Life, Made

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• I don’t know.  But it’s my option.  I don’t want to leave Chicago.  I want to be successful here.  I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant race… I don’t want to leave, and I don’t think I will leave.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Team, Thinking, Race

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• Sometimes people think success comes over night. There is no such thing, anyone you ever see that is successful has worked at it and if they do it well and calculate it just right they will make it look easy. Life is no fun if you don't get a few bumps and bruises along the way.

  Tyler Shields

  Fun, Night, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tyler Shields from Mar 18, 2015

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• 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

  Mother, Husband, Dad

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• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

  Lauryn Hill

  Escaping, Concepts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

  Richard Branson

  Way, Being Successful

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Aug 12, 2015

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• Successful couples love each other with complete devotion

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Couple, Devotion, Love Each Other

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• There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

  Will Smith

  People, Quality, Delusional

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• Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Years

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• One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspiration, Intelligent, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “How to overcome Failure and achieve SUCCESS”, p.29, Elkrimbouziane

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• Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

  Mark Cuban

  Opportunity, Unexpected, Ready

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.100, Diversion Books

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• The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

  Orrin Woodward

  Skills, Attempting, Developing

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• Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Ideas, Creating, Innovation

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• I stand by my record. I did some sharp things to get things right - too harsh - but a lot was at stake. But at the end of the day, what have I got? Just a successful Singapore.

  Mr. Lee

  The End Of The Day, Records, Harsh

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• If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

  David Macaulay

  Lucky, Attention, Matter

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• Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

  Paul Singer

  Essence, Crafts, Entrepreneurial

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• The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for successful careers. I'm thrilled that more than 10,000 youth of all abilities and backgrounds have already benefited from this important program and I look forward to our impressive team of Employment Ontario partners continuing to work with businesses across the province to help young people build a brighter future for Ontario.

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Team, Opportunity

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• A loss is a loss, examine why you lost. A win is a win, evaluate what made you successful.

  Chris Hanburger

  Loss, Winning, Lost

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