Successful Quotes - Page 17

• I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Stars, Thinking, Comedian

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Climate, Transition

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• Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Dad, Business

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• There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

  Thomas Jones

  Men, People, Wife

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Being an entrepreneur and starting new companies require a lot of sacrifice. Sacrifice that you have to make. Because in order to be really successful, your company becomes your life. And then you have to really dedicate your time and energy fully to this endeavor that you start.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Sacrifice, Order, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Hard Work, Commitment, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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

  Yogi Berra

  Entrepreneur, Faces, Fear Of Failure

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.

  Jeff Fisher

  Skills, Design, Personality

  Source: justcreative.com

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• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  Edith Evans

  Artist, Kind, Justified

  "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 13, 1977.

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• I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

  Robin Wright

  Hollywood, Term

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• The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

  Ross Perot

  Life, People, World

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• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  War, Iraq, White

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• I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

  Michael Horton

  Thinking, Church Today, Numbers

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.16, Baker Books

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• The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

  David J. Schwartz

  Healing, Work Out, Tests

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• A successful career has been full of blunders.

  Charles Buxton

  Careers, Blunders, Has Beens

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• I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

  Will McDonough

  Nbc, Eight, Years

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• Communication is the key to successful relationships.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Communication, Keys

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Marine, Korea, West

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• I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

  William Boyd

  Book, Novel, Print

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• Our movement was a great success; I think the most successful military movement of my life. But I expect to receive more credit for it than I deserve. Most men will think I planned it all from the first; but it was not so. I simply took advantage of circumstances as they were presented to me in the providence of God. I feel that His hand led me - let us give Him the glory.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, War, Men

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• The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

  Matthew Bourne

  Journey, Reason, Shows

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• The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

  Robert Anthony

  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.167, Morgan James Publishing

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• Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

  Martha Beck

  Fun, Pathways, Diversion

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• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Mean, Order

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

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• If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

  Carlos Santana

  Inspirational, Men, People

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