If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

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.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

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.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

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.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.