Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

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

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

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

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.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

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