#succes

I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#entertainment #ever #get #go #going

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#because #bigger #bureaucracies #corporations #entrepreneur

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#around #contrast #earn #economic #enables

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #behind #camera #college #college degree

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#be happy #comfort #constantly #enthusiastic #fame

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#any #based #common #common sense #great

I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue. Now, if only I could do the same with my shoelaces, I wouldn’t have to banana pudding my way to success.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #cherry #knot #nonsense #ridiculous

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leadership #success #leadership

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success