Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.
I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.
Being on a board is not just about showing up for the meetings. A board member needs to materially contribute to the success of the business.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful.
