“Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.” WantShouldMindTwoSuccessfulFivePiecesReaderJust OneNonfictionProvocative Author:William Zinsser
“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsActorsWinningRolesSuccessfulFiveDramaSixGainsWeightCreditOscarsSitcom Author:Mike O'Malley
“I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.” InspirationalYearsStoriesMightTodayNextSuccessfulFiveMonthsTomorrowFive YearsNext Year Author:Jon Jones
“I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.” ThinkingFeelsBookFactsActorsSuccessfulFiveMaterialsMovieSlaughterhousesSlaughterhouse FiveSlaughter House Five Author:Jerry Garcia
“I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.” PeopleYearsYoungDifferencesSuccessfulFiveGenerationsWorstTwentiesFive YearsBeing SuccessfulWorst ThingsTwenty FiveQualitativeOlder Generation Author:Cornel West
“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.” FeelsWritingWellsLastsThreeFeltDifficultNumbersSuccessfulFiveMinutesListsFive MinutesDifficult Days Author:Jacqueline Briskin
“First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.” WritingFirstsTwoRunningSongSuccessfulFiveWonderfulLuckAlbumsPops Author:Barry Manilow
“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.” WorldYearsEndsRunningLevelsSuccessfulFiveFive YearsEnthusiasticMomentumAdrenalineMost Amazing Author:Elton John
“I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsHas BeensMadeSeemsFilmBitsSuccessfulFiveMissingDrivingTreatedFive YearsElderlyDaisiesFive Year OldsCocoons Author:Maggie Smith
“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.” WarStatesAmericaEffortSuccessfulFivePolicyDegreesAccomplishReformRealmsRepublicAggressiveForeign PolicyDragBlastTraitorCitizenryInsurgentPuzzling Author:Walter Karp
“Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.” YearsJobsLawResultsNumbersHalfSuccessfulFiveProduceDecadesFive YearsExecutives Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.” IfsWayMayHas BeensSaidBookIdeasEndsSongCareersMorningSuccessfulFivePiecesCuttingDogPossibilityStudentsPaperTownsWineSouthPhotographStudiosInventionLabelsNo IdeaClockBottlesImmensePapersBeltsAdvertisementsBannedSuccessful CareerNew InventionsDog FoodHerniasPaper Cuts Author:George Grosz
“Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.” IfsGivingTryingEnoughGuyAsksPaySuccessfulFiveTestsResponseBottomCampaignsTargetAdsPurchasing Author:Dave Ramsey