The things you get fired for ...

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
 Francis Ford Coppola

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
 Francis Ford Coppola
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
 Francis Ford Coppola
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
 Francis Ford Coppola
A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.
 Francis Ford Coppola
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
 Francis Ford Coppola