I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.