When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.
One key to student success: Learning requires effort and study.
Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.
For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.
When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.
Your attitude determines the state of the world you live in. It is the foundation for every success and failure. Your attitude will make you or break you.
True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.
If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.
Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
