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.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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

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

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

You’re never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I’ve been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.