#succes

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#businessman #good #grabs #holds #just

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#enjoy #everybody #got #honestly #i

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#building #cases #cross #desktop #i

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded. ↗

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

#misattributed-to-emerson #success #widely-misattributed #beauty

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#happened #i #just #know #never

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#based #hindsight #i #into #past

I wanted to be successful, not famous. ↗

— George Harrison

#i #successful #wanted

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve. ↗