Success Quotes

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

John Cusack

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Calvin Klein

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Howard Nemerov

You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Johnny Depp

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Jim Carrey

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ellen Glasgow

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

Eliot Spitzer

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.

Jane Pauley

Fame and success are very different things.

Enya

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

Matthew Sweet

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Bryan Adams

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Michelle Obama

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

Arthur Henderson

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.

Brendan Fraser

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

George Michael

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Sigmund Freud

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

Joe Nichols