Successful Quotes - Page 19

• It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Planets

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• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Intelligent, Evil

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• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Government, Touching, Lines

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• We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Fighting

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America”

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• It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

  James Sinegal

  Loyalty, Organization, People

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• Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

  Jim Highsmith

  People, Answers, Projects

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• I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Government, Citizens

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• I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, School, Men

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• The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

  Tony Blair

  Determination, Giving Money, Needs

  "Treasury reveals how little tax the super-rich pay" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

  Brooke Shields

  Struggle, Mean, Life Is

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.

  Ja Rule

  Dream, Fashion, Drug

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Age, Survivor, Successful Women

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.

  Marcelo Claure

  Winning, Special, Flavor

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

  Thomas Keller

  Thinking, Two, Cookbook

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Jobs, Imagination, Focus

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.

  Val Kilmer

  People, Lucky, Actors

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• I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

  Willie Aames

  Successful Marriage, Felt, Ifs

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• If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Mountaineering

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• A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Done, Lord

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• I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Trying, Pieces, Want

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• Because we are God's children...we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer.... Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an "I hope this will work"...attitude. Instead...prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That's the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs.

  Jim Cymbala

  Children, Attitude, Prayer

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• The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

  John Chancellor

  People, Sticks, Successful People

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• The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

  Donald Knuth

  Essentials, Tools, Ingredients

  Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.398, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Body, Toady, Busy

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• To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

  George Soros

  Hands, Needs, Leisure

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