#success

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#covered #dancing #david #doing #else

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#being #changed #fans #first #going

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#degree #length #success #time

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success. ↗

— Lee Haney

#being #everything #extremely #important #market

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

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#any #being #believe #better #bloomer

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#business #counsel #enterprises #fears #hopes

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #characteristics #evolution #our #promoted