Successful Quotes

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

~ Ken Blanchard

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

~ Andy Serkis

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

~ Gene Green

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

~ Thomas P.m. Barnett

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

~ Erskine Bowles

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

~ Tilman J. Fertitta

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

~ Brandon Stanton

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

~ Marco Rubio

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.

~ Tilman J. Fertitta

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

~ Andrew Card

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

~ Van Wyck Brooks

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

~ Bianca Jagger

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

~ Bill Frist

A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

~ John Roos

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

~ Clint Eastwood

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

~ Joel Fuhrman

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

~ Elizabeth Edwards

If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

~ Suresh Raina

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

~ Bill Bryson

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

~ Curtis Jackson

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

~ Bruce Schneier

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

~ H. R. Giger

When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

~ Boy George

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

~ Anushka Sharma

I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.

~ Rose Kennedy

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

~ Jeff Bridges

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

~ Alec Baldwin

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

~ Troy Duffy

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

~ Donatella Versace

When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.

~ Jonathan Ive

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

~ André Maurois

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

~ Rob Lowe

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

~ Bob Newhart

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

~ Nancy Pelosi

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

~ Chris O'dowd

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

~ Kage Baker