Quotes About Being Successful

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”

— Steve Jobs

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises, don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful - be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. - William S. Burroughs”

— William S. Burroughs

“Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do.”

— Lorii Myers

“The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

“Churches are notorious for creating competing systems, wherein unclear direction and conflicting information threaten to cause a breakdown and paralyze the ministry. Instead of replacing old systems, we tend to just download and add whatever is new to what already exists. Soon our capacity becomes fragmented and we find ourselves confronted with the signs of ineffectiveness: some ministries seem routine and irrelevant; the teaching feels too academic; calendars are saturated with mediocre programs; staff members pull in opposite directions; volunteers lack motivation; departments viciously compete for resources; and it becomes harder and harder to figure out if we are really being successful. Too many churches desperately need an upgrade. They need to reformat their hard drives and install a clean system. They need to rewrite their code so everyone is clear about what is important and how they should function.”

— Andy Stanley

“At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.”

— Erin Cummings

“Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Bottom line. All companies are in business to make money, but being successful at it is not the reason why things change so drastically. That only points to a symptom. Without understanding the reason it happened in the first place, the pattern will repeat for every other company that makes it big. It is not destiny or some mystical business cycle that transforms successful”

— Simon Sinek

“A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!”

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.”

— Gabe Newell

“The pleasure of being successful in revenge disappears quickly ... Like a snowflake in the sun ...”

— Gosho Aoyama

“We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.”

— Mitt Romney

“Uhhhhh. Without answering,I turned and hurried toward the back of the room, eaving around bodies on yoga mats in the center of the polished wood floor, thinking unkind thoughts about well-meaning old people who wanted to push me into being successful.”

— Jennifer Echols

“Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.”

— Tabatha Coffey

“For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.”

— Christian Siriano

“In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.”

— John Corbett

“If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.”

— Owen Hart

“People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.”

— Paul Stanley

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

— Zig Ziglar

“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.”

— Allison Williams

“My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.”

— Channing Tatum

“I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.”

— Chris Martin

“There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.”

— Clint Eastwood

“Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.”

— Gary Hamel

“Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure-in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.”

— Tedd Tripp

“You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...”

— Rachel Caine

“It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.”

— Jacoby Shaddix

“I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind”

— Marc Benioff

“I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.”

— Jimmy Rollins

“The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.”

— Frank Luntz

“My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.”

— Sarah Paulson

“I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.”

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

“The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.”

— Barbara Cochran

“Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.”

— Bill Walton

“The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.”

— Myles Munroe

“Being successful is kind of dull.”

— Nolan Bushnell

“Work ethic is the most important component of being successful.”

— Kliff Kingsbury

“Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.”

— James Dyson

“I'm not going to apologize for being successful.”

— Mitt Romney

“It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book
which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little
and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“"Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Being successful doesn't necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.”

— Joel Osteen

“Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.”

— Behdad Sami

“As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.”

— Ben Stiller

“Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.”

— John Locke

“Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?”

— Thomas Leonard

“The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.”

— Bruce Lee

“DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter”

— Tony Dungy

“Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!”

— Randy Pausch