My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
Christopher Walken

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
Michael Phelps

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Benjamin Disraeli

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
Christopher Walken

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia LaBeouf

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Freddie Mercury

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
Alain de Botton

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Eddie Murphy

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Edward de Bono

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Jeffrey Sachs

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
Kevin Bacon

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch