Successful Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

  Brooke Shields

  Might, Easy, Okay

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• 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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• Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.

  Jake Heggie

  Real, Emotional, Journey

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

  Camille Paglia

  Clients, Environment, Trouble

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• I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.mtv.com

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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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• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  Val Kilmer

  Hard Work, Home, Rivers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  True Happiness, Failing, Enough

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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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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Real, Moving, Past

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

  George Soros

  Hands, Needs, Leisure

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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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• The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

  Sherry Lansing

  Differences, Sticks, Failing

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• Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

  Paul Singer

  Essence, Crafts, Entrepreneurial

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• The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

  Alan Page

  Football, Player, Over You

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• Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Years

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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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