A Quote by Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Matt Bomer

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Matt Bomer
American - Actor
Born: October 11, 1977

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.

Dan Pena

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Benjamin Franklin

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Will Rogers

You can't make everyone happy no matter what. All I can do is live my life and try to be successful and please myself. I have my own morals I live by. Bill Cosby once said, 'I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.' I agree with that. I live my life my way. I try to do the right thing, but I know there are going to be people who aren't happy with what I do or say no matter what, so I'm not going to worry about it.

B.J. Penn

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

Buddy DeFranco

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

Steven Wilson

We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One.

Richard Branson

Everybody has their own opinions and you cannot please everybody. I'm never going to try to do that - to please everybody - because there is always somebody who will say they don't like it.

Demian Maia

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

Maxime Bernier

I think I'd want to see the Hollywood sign, that's for sure. I've never seen that yet. And oh, please, please, please, can I go to Disneyland?

Auli'i Cravalho

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

Carlos Ghosn

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.