I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Without failure there is no achievement.

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Dream and you shall become.

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.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

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

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

No pressure, no diamonds.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.