I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
I loved Australia. I was very successful there.
Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?
I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.
There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.
Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'.
I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.
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.
My customers are successful workingwomen.
The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.
Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.