62 quotes found
“Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.”
“An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the succes...”
“People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.”
“The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.”
“There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to delive...”
“All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project...”
“I've always strived to be successful, not famous.”
“When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.”
“It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff -...”
“Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.”
“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”
“I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.”
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
“As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit diffe...”
“Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”
“Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.”
“The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.”
“The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.”
“To be successful, one must take chances.”
