Quotes about Success

Startups often have to do dubious things.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

The Rhodes scholarship process was very extensive. I had to do several personal statements, rewrite those over and over and over again. I had to get some letters of recommendation.

I haven't gotten overly confident or cocky. I think staying level and humble has helped me through the bad times and the good times.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

Though in a plan of which justice and humanity are the foundation principles, interest ought not to be admitted into the calculation, yet it is always of advantage to the establishment of any plan to show that it is beneficial as a matter of interest. The success of any proposed plan submitted to public consideration must finally depend on the numbers interested in supporting it, united with the justice of its principles.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Humility was never a loser.

You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.