Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

With my channel, and what people associate with Internet, most people think it goes viral, you become this huge thing super quick. I never had an explosion or a huge thing. It's just been something that has progressively been growing. It's been building.

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

When we build that foundation for sustained success, and it ultimately results in a World Series, it's going to be more than just a World Series.

We have the talent in place, and I think if you are a Jaguars fan, you should be excited, and you should have some expectations that we're going to be a sustainable, winning organization now.

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory... There are no permanent victories.

We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and it trickles down to every aspect of the band.

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.