Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

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?

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.