I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

When you're a famous successful person at 16 years old the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner but not both and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great how famous or successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

When I was growing up I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

I wanted to be successful not famous.

Until he lost all his money my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Always be yourself express yourself have faith in yourself do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure you're not really successful.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Other countries such as Israel successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports but the bloated ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Before this government came to power many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.