I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Nothing will work unless you do.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Success has always been a great liar.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.