I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

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.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

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.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

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

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

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

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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

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.

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.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

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

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

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

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

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

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

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

See, winners embrace hard work.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

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.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.