I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.
~By Ronnie Montrose ~
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
~By John Perkins ~
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
~By Ernest Thompson Seton ~
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
~By David Brinkley ~
Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
~By Robin Day ~
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
~By Rick Derringer ~
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
~By Chin-Ning Chu ~
Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
~By Kiana Tom ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
~By Erica Jong ~
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
~By Don Marquis ~
I will never feel successful.
~By Howard Stern ~
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
~By Michael Phelps ~
Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
~By Bruce Barton ~
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~By Alex Noble ~
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
~By Tony Robbins ~
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
~By Althea Gibson ~
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
~By Harold Nicolson ~
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
~By Don Johnson ~
My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
~By John Strachan ~
Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
~By Susie Bright ~
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
~By Xun Zi ~
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
~By Paul Valery ~
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.
~By John Bruton ~
The more successful I become, the more I need a man.
~By Beyonce Knowles ~
I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.
~By William Jackson ~
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
~By Voltaire ~
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
~By Rose Tremain ~
At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
~By Marc Davis ~
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
~By Bob Goodlatte ~
Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
~By Don Henley ~
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
~By Alan Thicke ~
I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.
~By Donna Shalala ~
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
~By Adam Duritz ~
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.
~By Greg Norman ~
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
~By Treat Williams ~
If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.
~By James Marsden ~
If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
~By Spike Lee ~
I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
~By Bob Cousy ~
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.
~By Judith Guest ~
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
~By Bob Newhart ~
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
~By Bruce Barton ~
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.
~By John W. Snow ~
It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
~By Roger Babson ~
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
~By Frank Pittman ~
The government never does anything successfully.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
~By Christopher Walken ~
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
~By Chanakya ~
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
~By Billy Joel ~
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
~By Maude Adams ~
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
~By Brian Tracy ~
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
~By Brett Hull ~
You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
~By Storm Jameson ~
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
~By Carol Gilligan ~
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.
~By Ian Jackson ~
We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.
~By Evan Bayh ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
~By Kiana Tom ~
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
~By Judd Gregg ~
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
~By John Ruskin ~
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
~By George Porter ~
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
~By Vin Diesel ~
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
~By Marya Mannes ~
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
~By Bob Filner ~
The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.
~By David Milne ~
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
~By David Cassidy ~
I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.
~By Stephen Evans ~
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
~By Bruce Lee ~
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
~By Albert Bandura ~
But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.
~By Ludacris ~
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
~By Roberta Flack ~
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