#Successful

"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."

"When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work."

"All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'"

"I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"

"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."

"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

"THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in moments.To enjoy THE GOOD LIFE we have to get ahead; to enjoy A GOOD LIFE we have to make the trip worthwhile.THE GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our pocketbooks; A GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our souls."

"Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures."

"I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school."

"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."

"To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in."

"It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does."

"Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

"Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today."

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."