Successful Quotes - Page 20

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

  George Soros

  Hands, Needs, Leisure

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• People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.

  Ian Schrager

  People, Want

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• I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

  Andy Grove

  Believe, People, Business Success

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• The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Secret, Busy

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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Thinking, Safe, Measurement

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• Not careers alone make people happy. A successful professional life and joy in work are certainly a part of it, but I couldn't be happy without a fulfilling private life.

  Kristina Schroder

  Careers, People, Joy

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• If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.

  Debora Spar

  Mother, Real, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Winning, Perfect

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• If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

  Eric Sink

  Hands, Java, Monkeys

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• You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

  Niall Ferguson

  Struggle, Debtors, World

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Track, Mind, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Ideas, Creating, Innovation

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

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Honest, Behavior, Tricks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Emotional

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

  Wernher von Braun

  Planets

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• I don’t know.  But it’s my option.  I don’t want to leave Chicago.  I want to be successful here.  I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant race… I don’t want to leave, and I don’t think I will leave.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Team, Thinking, Race

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• My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

  Quentin Bryce

  Mother, Husband, Dad

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• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

  Lauryn Hill

  Escaping, Concepts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• Successful couples love each other with complete devotion

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Couple, Devotion, Love Each Other

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• There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

  Will Smith

  People, Quality, Delusional

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• One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspiration, Intelligent, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “How to overcome Failure and achieve SUCCESS”, p.29, Elkrimbouziane

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• Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

  Mark Cuban

  Opportunity, Unexpected, Ready

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.100, Diversion Books

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• The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

  Orrin Woodward

  Skills, Attempting, Developing

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• Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

  Jeff Fisher

  Design, Identity, Special

  Source: justcreative.com

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• If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

  David Macaulay

  Lucky, Attention, Matter

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