My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.
Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
