“I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.”
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“I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.”
“Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.”
“The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.”
“I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.”
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
“You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.”
“Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”
“So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.”
“Success breeds success.”
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
“Well, success does not mean doing well.”
“Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.”
“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.”
“Success can't be forced.”
“I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.”
“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.”
“I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'”
“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”
“I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.”
“It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”
“I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.”
“You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.”
“Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.”