“We are not very good at this. Our success rests on our international experience and on our ability to read the market. And I contest the notion that you can only succeed in China when you are well-connected. Neither my husband nor I are "princelings" - children of influential people, that is. And yet China has enabled us to succeed.” PeopleWellsChildrenAbilitySucceedHusbandNotionVery GoodInternationalChinaConnectedMy HusbandContestsInfluentialInfluential People Author:Zhang Xin
“We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.” PeopleWorldCertainTypeSucceedAround The WorldBullyUnderdogAlphas Author:Jon Gnarr
“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesEnoughLawHappenedStudentsSucceedAchievementStandardsToughTestsDrivenIdeologyGapsOld PeopleFrameworkAchievement Gap Author:Diane Ravitch
“You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists.” PeopleDoneMightCallingSucceedMovedRacistGet AwayIntimidatingLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.” PeopleMindBelieveReasonPlayAbleLife IsGamesGoalHalfSucceedAccomplishReason WhyMind Games Author:Rahki
“I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.” PeopleFoundSuccessfulSucceed Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.” PeopleNeedsGivingWritingAsksStuffSucceedGiving UpSummerEveningAsk MeSummer Evening Author:John Darnielle
“There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things that people can latch onto and say, "Yeah, I feel like that sometimes." It can be inspiring or it can be something that keeps you sane when you're not feeling well.” PeopleFeelsHumansWellsSometimesFeelingsSucceedBiggerYeahPopsSaneVersusPop MusicLatchesNot Feeling Well Author:John Dieterich
“People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsStillsEndsLanguageLosesPrinciplesProductsSucceedArgumentInspiredDebateAspireBe InspiredBest Service Author:Frank Luntz
“I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFailingRiskSucceed Author:John Assaraf
“The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferencesHugeSucceedMentor Author:Julie Delpy
“These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookMillionsSucceedPositivelyThink Positively Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.” PeopleShouldWould BeLeaderViolenceJudgingSucceedResponsibleTerrorPalestinian Author:Colin Powell
“There are so many people who don't want her to succeed, and they've been doing everything to deny her what is literally her entitlement. And she has still triumphed over it all, the biggest crack in the glass ceiling ever, and it's Mrs. Hillary Clinton.” PeopleWantStillsSucceedClintonGlassesDenyOver ItCracksCeilingsEntitlementGlass Ceiling Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et cetera. They like America for what we stand for. And one of the things, and I feel proud to be, what this president's for, the last seven years, is we have once again aligned our basic fundamental beliefs and principles with our conduct. And it matters. It matters in terms of our security. It matters in terms of our ability to influence the world. It matters in our ability to succeed.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsWellsMatterLastsAmericaBeliefPresidentTermAbilityPrinciplesInfluenceSecurityMilitaryProudSucceedFundamentalsSevenSeven YearsAbility To Succeed Author:Joe Biden
“For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.” PeopleUseJobsGrowsNaturalEconomySucceedModelsResourcesEmbraceSpeciesConservationWildlifeNatural ResourcesIconic Author:David Jeremiah Barron
“It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.” PeopleFallSucceedFalling Down Author:Christopher Gorham
“I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.” PeopleMenLongRunningAgeCertainSeaPrideSucceedFindingsStriveGhostMotiveOld ManLong Runs Author:Allen Ginsberg
“First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.” PeopleWayFirstsDiesLeftHappenedGoes OnSucceedFirst TimeLaborFruitBridgesUnconsciousBloodyBeatenArrestedConcussions Author:John Lewis
“The "I've tried everything" story ensures failure. You must create an empowering story that recognizes that everyone has failed a lot but successful people have found a way to rebound until they succeed.” PeopleWayStoriesFoundSuccessfulSucceedEmpoweringSuccessful PeopleRebound Author:Tony Robbins
“I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary.” PeopleFeelsPersonsDoeHelpingWishAbilityFieldsSucceedOrdinaryModest Author:Edmund Hillary
“Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do, what is the problem, what kind of priorities and resources do we need, what kind of people do I need to bring to bear on this problem, what kind of plans do we need to succeed.” PeopleNeedsTryingKindProblemHappensSituationLeaderPlansFiguresBearsSucceedResourcesPrioritiesThings HappenMake Things Happen Author:Herman Cain
“There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed. But for government, I think in many cases, they could do more.” PeopleThinkingWellsSoulGovernmentEyeFightingCommunityPovertyCasesSucceedNeighborhood Author:Paul Ryan
“The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both” PeopleKnowsTwoLearningSucceedCrisisManagePhases Author:Mark McCormack
“If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.” PeopleIfsMadeCharacterStoriesSubjectsSucceedResearchLuck Author:Cosima Spender
“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.” PeopleIfsFirstsLooksMayBeliefStrongCompanyFailingEffectsSucceedAssumingImpressionCompetentFirst ImpressionHalosGood First Impression Author:Daniel Kahneman
“People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.” PeopleSucceedEnthusiastic Author:Charles R. Schwab
“Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.” PeopleGrowsDifferencesResultsSeeingSucceedContributionThrive Author:Azran Osman Rani
“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?” PeopleIfsThinkingSoundExistenceCompanyClassPathMiddleSecurityProduceComfortSucceedProgramConnectionsRemainsPreparedIllBrilliantHandleErasPostsMiddle ClassCynicalOccasionalRecessionsEruptionMbaLarge CompaniesGreat RecessionMba Programs Author:Lewis Schiff
“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensKidsPassionFocusFailingGroupsSpecialYouthSucceedOfficeClintonFocusedServantEmpoweringServingChicagoPublic LifeServing OthersSuburbsPublic ServantsMethodists Author:Tim Kaine
“I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.” PeopleWayWantActionSucceedCaringBest WayLeftists Author:Indira Gandhi
“I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.” PeopleWantSucceedThese Days Author:St. Lucia
“The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.” PeopleWaitingSucceedPermissionWaiting Around Author:Alexis Ohanian
“I think that's what's - one of the things that is alarming to me is [Donald] Trump, and I think Trump supporters seem to believe, he won, huge upset, full credit to him, and has got the wind at his back. And Republicans on The Hill do want him to succeed, obviously, and they're deferring to him more than they deep down in private sort of wish - want to, but they are going to defer to him publicly for awhile. But I think that is going to run out faster than people think.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveSeemsRunningWishWindHugeTrumpRepublicanSucceedCreditHillsFasterUpsetSupporterDeep DownWant Him Author:William Kristol
“I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and to campaign for reform. I'm just the first to come forward in the manner that I did and succeed.” PeopleFirstsAbleNew YorkSucceedOfficeCampaignsDebateReform Author:Edward Snowden
“Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensShowsAbleWantedWinningTrumpInvolvedSucceedProjectsProfitBunch Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.” PeopleNeedsOrderQualitySucceedCreatingBuiltLaborCommunistQuantityQuantity And Quality Author:Joseph Stalin
“How do we have a society that maximizes peace, civility and well-being for everyone? How do we have a system of individual rights in which people succeed by helping others improve their lives? We're a long way from that. So what, I mean, we got more to learn than we know, to me. So we need better ideas.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsWellsMeanLongIdeasHelpingIndividualRightsSucceedHelping OthersWell BeingLong WayCivilityIndividual Rights Author:Charles Koch
“I'd like to see a rebirth of America - go back where there's equal rights for everybody and that people succeed to the extent that they help other people improve their lives. To lead toward a society that maximizes peace, civility, and well-being for everyone.” PeopleWellsHelpingAmericaRightsSucceedEqualHelping OthersWell BeingRebirthEqual RightsCivility Author:Charles Koch
“I don't like the idea of capitalism anyway. Because it's not capital we are talking about; it's knowledge and creating well-being. Because I mean, that gets people on the wrong track when it's capital and how we allocate capital - no. How do we create the Republic of Science in America? How do we have a system of mutual benefits where people succeed by helping others improve their lives? So I don't like that at all.” PeopleWellsMeanIdeasHelpingAmericaTalkingSucceedBenefitsCreatingCapitalismTrackHelping OthersWell BeingMutualRepublicMutual Benefit Author:Charles Koch
“I love the message that Barack Obama said - that we want Donald Trump to succeed because we want America to succeed. I'm sort of following that. I think there's been a lot of frustration for a lot of people, but at the end of the day we all want this country to survive and thrive and be the superpower that we know it is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSaidEndsCountryAmericaTrumpSucceedMessagesFollowingBarackThe End Of The DayFrustrationThriveSuperpower Author:Gayle King
“I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsSaidGovernmentMightRememberLyingBehindsTalkingArmsIndustryInvolvedSucceedWeaponsJokesResearchYears AgoProfitProductionsRelatedTippingTipping Point Author:Noam Chomsky
“Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.” PeopleIfsWayWantGovernmentMightMovingCostSucceedMembersBottomBillionsBillionaire Author:Joe Quirk
“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.” PeopleWayTryingHumansKindStillsEndsHardDreamHappensWould BeValuesRealizingCommunityFiguresRevolutionSucceedCapitalismBuiltProfitHuman LifeShocking80sI Still BelieveShocking Things Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.” PeopleIfsPersonsLongFeelingsBeliefDifficultFailingRegretTerribleSorrowHealthySucceedProjectsNegativeAddSignificantFrustrationRejectedIrrationalTerrifiedAnnoyanceNegative FeelingsIrrational Beliefs Author:Albert Ellis
“By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.” PeopleThinkingIdeasCareAbleToo MuchSucceedDon't CareCaringI Don't CareNot CaringCaring Too Much Author:Albert Ellis
“Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingOrderHurtProductsSucceedCompetitionCustomersBest WayLunacy Author:Guy Kawasaki
“I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.” PeopleThinkingFeelsImportantSecuritySucceedImportant ThingsFeel GoodJohnsonRestlessness Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.” PeopleWellsSometimesWholeSpeakFeltFailingBecomingSucceedImperfectionAttemptingPlaywright Author:Annie Baker
“I look at Playtone, the company that produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I call them my Playtoners. They are the kindest people who treated me like gold before that movie made a dime. We became personal friends. When I think about how lovely and wonderful they are that convinces me that you don't have to make a deal with the devil to succeed. It's a choice.” PeopleThinkingChoicesWonderfulSucceedDevilGoldLovelyGreekConvince Author:Nia Vardalos