I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Genius is patience.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

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

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

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.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.