Quotes about Success

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

What happened in the '70s was albums and concerts began making a hell of a lot more money, and then the suits got involved.