“I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.” PeopleMadeWholePartySuccessfulLonelySurpriseWhole LifeBunchThrownMonkeysPoniesSurprise Party Author:Jenny Lawson
“If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.” PeopleIfsNeedsTwoSpeakSuccessfulLots Of Money Author:Jodie Foster
“The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.” PeopleWantWellsProblemYoungSuccessfulParasitesHangers Author:Mike Oldfield
“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.” PeopleYearsBigsFilmKnownCareersSuccessfulFineExcitingPaidHostRespectableRubbishJuliaAmerican Film Author:Joely Richardson
“I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.” PeopleThinkingWayMaySelfSuccessfulNiceAirCarPoliticianSouthBelovedDriversSouthernSuspicionPetty Author:John Shelton Reed
“I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.” PeopleThinkingWantYoungSuccessfulSmartFeminineI Want You Author:Portia de Rossi
“Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.” PeopleWantReasonRunningHatePaySuccessfulInvolvedPaidRateReasonableEmployeeSuccessful Business Author:Stuart Rose
“I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.” PeopleThinkingProblemBigsSocialPresidentStepsSuccessfulSecurityAdmireSocial SecurityPollsPresident BushStep UpBig Problems Author:Donna Shalala
“I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.” PeopleVoiceSuccessfulMaterialsMediocre Author:Nancy Sinatra
“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.” PeopleThinkingSelfRunningAbilitySuccessfulFocusTaughtThreadSuccessful PeopleSelf Taught Author:Fred L. Turner
“When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.” PeopleSuccessfulAccidentsRealisingSuccessful People Author:Ryan Tedder
“My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.” PeopleKnowsWantCharacterSuccessfulFans Author:Tila Tequila
“I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.” PeopleGivingShouldBelieveHas BeensI BelieveWealthSuccessfulTypeFortunateBeing Successful Author:Alisher Usmanov
“I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksWould BeLife IsCareersSuccessfulBenefitsComfortableFairsSelfishSuccessful LifeSuccessful CareerComfortable Life Author:George Weah
“My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.” PeopleParentSuccessfulHappy People Author:Jack Wagner
“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.” PeopleRememberUsedHateThreeBeliefPathSuccessfulDependsEnvyThree ThingsAmnesia Author:Jedediah Bila
“Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.” PeopleInspirationalJoyGoalSuccessfulBuddhismSuccessful PeopleAttainmentJoy And HappinessShort Lived Author:Frederick Lenz
“People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.” PeopleInspirationalMindSuccessfulBuddhismDisciplineApproachEnlightenmentPathways Author:Frederick Lenz