I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

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.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I always make my dreams into goals.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

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

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

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.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

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.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.