Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward and when to listen to constructive criticism.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

How about those people who don't need sleep? What are they called again? Successful? What a bunch of dicks they are.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

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