Quotes about success from interviews: founders, athletes and artists on what really stands behind results — work, failure, luck and the price they paid. Every quote has a timestamped video.
As an artist, I see my role as serving humanity and raising my voice for justice
the opening volume of the Neapolitan novels, about the friendship of two girls from a poor district — a rivalry, envy, and mutual pull that turns out to outlast every man and circumstance in their lives.
A chamber drama about how easily rigor is mistaken for cruelty, and the hunger for greatness for self-destruction.
Nobody believed in us at first. We just believed in ourselves and the music.
A science journalist assembles the research showing that the ability to recognize and regulate one's own and others' emotions shapes a person's success and well-being as much as—and sometimes more than—conventional…
A story of how a brilliant idea and its creator's social wounds turn into an empire — and a trail of broken relationships along the way.
Success doesn't come overnight. It's the result of hard work, passion and patience
A research report on what separated companies that turned mediocre results into decades of outstanding performance from closely matched competitors that stayed merely good.
A comedy of manners that gradually curdles into a taut parable about how poverty and wealth learn to impersonate each other — and what that impersonation costs.
Don't stop till you get enough. Enough is not money. Enough is joy and satisfaction
A practical guide by Intel's former CEO that treats managing people as an engineering discipline: how to measure a team's output, run meetings and one-on-ones, and why a manager's job is measured by leverage rather…
A portrait of an aging actor trying to prove to himself and the world that something real once existed beneath the mask of success.
I'm never satisfied. I always think how to make it better, more interesting.
An attempt by the founder of the world's largest hedge fund to turn his own painful failures into an explicit, written-down set of decision-making rules — and to build a company where even its founder is bound by them.
A psychological thriller about a ballerina for whom chasing a perfect performance becomes a chase toward the destruction of her own self.
Believe in yourself and in your music. That's what matters for success.
A compact treatise arguing that executive effectiveness is not a gift or a matter of charisma but a learnable set of habits centered on how one handles time, contribution and the quality of decisions.
The story of a court composer's envy toward a gift he was denied — a meditation on what happens when hard work collides with someone else's unaccountable genius.
I started writing music at 15 years old and my first album won five Grammy awards
People don't understand that with an extra four hours of technical patience, they can achieve the sound they want to hear
I never try to be someone else. I'm Dolly, and I'm proud of it. My originality is my success.
Success brings emptiness if you don't have love. Money and fame won't fill the void in your heart.
I believed in myself even when the world seemed against me.
I wanted to be a better human being, and that made me fall in love with hard work.
Blessed is the man who has found his work. That is the purpose of life.
The secret of success is seeing potential where others don't.
Life is about the journey, not the destination. Enjoy the ride.
A song comes to me when I listen to the life around me.
The more successful you become, the more people want a piece of you.
My teacher told me I would never become a pianist. It was the worst day of my life, but also the best, because I decided to prove him wrong.
Talent is something you are born with, but skill is something you have to work for.
I don't look back that often, but every film taught me something new about myself
A career comes when you go into work and forget about recognition
I am just a guy from the Bronx. For me it was a long journey.
If something is hard to do, then it's that much more rewarding when you push through all that resistance and actually do it.
Luxury means freedom. When I create shiny, gilded, expensive, I'm saying something about the desire to be free.
Young artists should be fearless. Confidence is the foundation of success in art.
I don't start writing a script until I am firmly in control of the structure of the piece. It's not imposed after the fact—it's the foundation of everything.
Restrictions don't destroy creativity, they generate it. When there is no freedom, innovation emerges.
If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
Money is a tool, not a goal. True wealth is the freedom to create without limits.
Success is not luck. It's drawing every day, drawing, drawing. Technique, technique, technique.
Writing is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn't, try something else.
My process is not inspiration but discipline. I sit down to write every morning; inspiration comes later.
The standing ovation at Cannes is not an end, but only the beginning of a conversation about why this story resonates with the world.
In The Martian, the protagonist survives not by luck but by perseverance, logic, and refusal to give up. It's a universal story of the human spirit.
When you truly love what you do, it is no longer work. It is a calling to which you dedicate your whole life.
I started thinking about black holes and how they interact with quantum mechanics
Great discoveries come from simple questions and relentless pursuit of truth