If you decide to move to L.A. like, 'I'm just gonna see if it works, and if nothing works I'm gonna go back in a year, two years' - very, very few people with that attitude are successful. You need to make a commitment to this and say, 'This is who I am, and this is what I do.'
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.
In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.
Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
We all know that Ray Kroc founded the McDonald's franchise back in the 1950s, and it then became the most successful business enterprise in history.
To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors, it's just, 'Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it, and if you have to do it, keep - you've got to keep your instrument in shape.' You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.
I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.
Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.
Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.
The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.
You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.