If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
‐‐ Tony Robbins
If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.
‐‐ Corey Taylor
If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
‐‐ Amy Nuttall
If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
‐‐ Michael Phelps
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith
If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
‐‐ Larry Poons
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
‐‐ Sydney Madwed
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw
If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that's fine, but I've found that if you haven't been knocked down a little bit, then you're probably not going to be hanging with me too much.
‐‐ Grant Show
If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.
‐‐ John Edwards
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.
‐‐ Louise Leakey
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.
‐‐ Louise Leakey
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay
If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
‐‐ Chevy Stevens
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy, and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
‐‐ Henry Cloud
If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.
‐‐ Timothy Dalton
If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi
If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.
‐‐ Leslie Dewan
If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
‐‐ Marc Andreesen
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.
‐‐ Michael Arrington
If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.
‐‐ Rasmus Lerdorf
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.
‐‐ Eric Holder
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner
If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
‐‐ Ken Hensley
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
‐‐ Yair Lapid
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
‐‐ Mary Douglas
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
‐‐ George Osborne
If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett
If you want to change your hair colour or your nail colour or things like that its fine, but you have to realize the dangers and repercussions of surgery.
‐‐ Heidi Montag
If you want to come fight the good fight to make a difference for people and to try to get the government back on track, where we govern from the middle and not from the extremes, then understand that it's a lonely road, and you're going to have a hard time.
‐‐ Pete Gallego
If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.
‐‐ Richard Carmona
If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.
‐‐ Juan Enriquez
If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
‐‐ James Nachtwey
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie
If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
‐‐ Abu Bakr
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
‐‐ Brian Chesky
If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.
‐‐ Janet Evanovich
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
‐‐ Mahavira
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher
If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.
‐‐ Erna Solberg
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.
‐‐ Richard Lewis
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
‐‐ John Goodman