There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I was an overnight sensation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Applause waits on success.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.