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I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

I'm astonished by my success.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

I will never feel successful.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.