After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!
When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Success is 99 percent failure.
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
Success is dependent on effort.
There is no success without hardship.
As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.
The best revenge in the world is success.
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
The secret to success is to be yourself.
Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.
I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.
In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor.