To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many!

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him... and both will be successful.

Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

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