It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.
I think I just care about people, and I have a mission to support them to succeed.
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.
Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.
I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.
Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.
If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.
