Success Quotes

When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

As more queer people find more mainstream success, I'm uneasy about it. I'm hesitant to celebrate, because I guess I'm cynical, because it seems like all it really means is that people with power think they can make money off of us or we can make them look good... But I know that purity isn't possible.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'