That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
Success is the sum of details.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.
Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
The secret of my success is that I deeply respect and learn from my peers and customers.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.