Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know. ”

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business. ”

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. ”

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. ”

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ”

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them. ”

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal. ”

Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it's politically driven. ”

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. ”

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way. ”