In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.
When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.
The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.
The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on 'Strictly' has changed my life.
The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.
Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.
Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.
I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
The secret to podcast success is sticking with it and making it fun for yourself.
I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.
I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.
Success is the child of audacity.
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
I am stable when my private life is a success.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.
