I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me.
Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
