If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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.

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

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

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.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

If you would judge, understand.

Respect the burden.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

My business is to prevent the future.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

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

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

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.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.