No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

I always have to be writing.

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

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

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

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

See, winners embrace hard work.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.