There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young – 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don’t make nothin’. – L. Ron Hubbard
People get successful and they start saying, ‘Well of course I am! I was chosen! I’m special!’ No, you’re not. – Louis C. K.
A career is a journey. I’ve been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven’t achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet. – Joey Lawrence
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class. – Mitt Romney
Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That’s what we know and have known for 70 successful years. – James Roosevelt
I’m a writer first and an editor second… or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don’t claim to have all of them at my command. – Lynn Abbey
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we’re committed to engaging the global economy. – John W. Snow
One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially – if they’re successful, it’s kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it. – Johnny Colt
I like to think that I’ve been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. – Linus Torvalds
I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it’s not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they’ll do whatever it takes to be successful. – Lori Greiner
You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup. – Kevin Nealon
I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they’re handed, and that seems courageous to me. – Judith Guest
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful. – Michael Porter
It doesn’t matter how successful you are in this business, it’s tough to get through the next door. – Kevin Sorbo
I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I’d like to be. More and more, I’ve taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen. – Josh Pais
There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years. – Kim Dae Jung
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years. – Jermaine Dupri
I’ve had young women come to me and say that before they watched ‘Voyager’ it didn’t really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA. – Kate Mulgrew
A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn’t necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it. – Katee Sackhoff
I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful. – Kevin Systrom
I’m glad I’m successful at it, because it’s allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It’s enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to do. But it’s not who I am. – Judith Guest
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts. – Malcolm Gladwell
I think it’s great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it’s a continuation and people have seen it. – Jeremy Renner
If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that ‘Ruined’ was very successful at doing that. – Lynn Nottage
