I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.
Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!
Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
