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.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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

Without failure there is no achievement.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

I think that success is having fun.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

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

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

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.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

We’re all dreamers.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

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

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

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.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I have goals.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Talent without working hard is nothing.