Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
Repeating, trying to repeat success – it never gets easier.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
When states and cities and our country say we’re going to tax the rich – and that word ‘rich’ or ‘wealthy’ doesn’t sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative – I resent it.
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success.
Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.
My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.
I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
I am living on the razor’s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation – between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it’s possible to actually reach success doing movies.
Things that are like overnight success things don’t last long, and that’s not something I wanted.
Success means at least you are finding full potential to who you are in terms of your intelligence, your capability and competence: you are finding full expression to who you are. This is important.
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success.
If you make it anywhere in life, you owe that success to the people along the way who stuck up for you, or made sacrifices for you, and gave you a push when you needed it. In my case, those people were my family.
Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
I don’t want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture – community, hard work, perseverance, respect – contribute directly to our success.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin – I know it has served me well over the years.
Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
