If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

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

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

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.

My fat never made me less money.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.