I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
— Steve Martin
It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.
— Steve James
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
— Steve Harvey
When I told my friends and family that I was leaving Stars to open a burrito shop in Denver, they thought I was crazy, but not long after the success of the first Chipotle, I knew I had to open just one more, so I opened a second one on Colorado Boulevard, which turned out to be even busier than the first.
— Steve Ells
When I bump into Scotland supporters they are pretty positive. They just want a little bit of success. I don't think that's too much for them to ask.
— Steve Clarke
Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate 'team sport,' in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.
— Steve Capus
Customer Development changes almost every aspect of startup behavior, performance, metrics, and, as often as not, success potential.
— Steve Blank
Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.
— Steve Ballmer
Donald Trump is fighting for working people, and he's fighting to restore the borders around this country that are the essential ingredient for national sovereignty and national success in a way that nobody has who has held that office not only in my lifetime but, frankly, in the history of this country.
— Stephen Miller
My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.
— Stephen J. Cannell
In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.
— Stephen Hendry
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
— Stephen Hawking
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
— Stephen Dorff
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
— Stephen Covey
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
I write out my schedule for the week ahead on a white board. I step back. I take a second to look at it - to evaluate what each commitment means to me and my family. I ask myself, 'Will my participation have an impact? Is my attendance essential to the success of the event or to the person I'm supporting, even if I know I won't be present?'
— Stephanie Ruhle
Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.
— Stellan Skarsgard
It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide.
— Steve Kanaly
Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
As you get little pockets of success, then suddenly the light bulbs go on in everyone's head, and more leaders get more confident and make more, bigger decisions, and customers respond well, and it becomes a bit of a flywheel.
— Steve Easterbrook
I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.
— Steve Carell
Long hours don't necessarily mean success.
I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.
On Twitter, there'll be fans of 'Army Wives' and people who say, 'I've been following you since 'Supernatural,' I loved you on 'Person of Interest,'' and it's really cool to get that love. To them, I'm not just an overnight success.
— Sterling K. Brown
I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'
— Stephen Malkmus
It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.
— Stephen Hough
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.
There isn't a route to success. Make a film. If people like it, you'll be okay. There is no route that I know of.
— Stephen Frears
I do not regret having done 'Game of Thrones,' but I have nothing to say. I understood neither the series nor its success when I was attending. The experience was very strange; it passed under my nose.
— Stephen Dillane
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.
— Stephen Cambone
I think it's one of the secret sauces to our success, if you will, is that our fans are a part of our show. They engage, they chant, they cheer, they boo. There's a problem when they don't react. So, in essence, every live event is like a focus group. So we are getting that real-time feedback from them in the arena.
— Stephanie McMahon
Credit comes with success, and I need to have a lot more of it. In due time - I'm not rushing.
— Stefon Diggs
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
— Steve Jobs
I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.
— Steve Hilton
'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.
— Steve Erickson
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
— Steve Coogan
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.
The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.
— Steve Bannon
Coming to Beijing, throughout all of what has happened and the success I have gained, I look at it as I was just fortunate and blessed.
— Stephon Marbury
The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.
— Stephen Kinzer
In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
I think that when I was younger and had my first round of big success and was plastered on magazine covers in the early and mid-'90s, I was kind of outspoken and had kind of a pretty aggressive attitude in my life.
I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.
— Stephen Curry
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Sometimes, success in life is knowing one's limitations.
— Stephen A. Schwarzman
As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners - but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.
— Steph Houghton
