Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

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.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

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

I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

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.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

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

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

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

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

I always make my dreams into goals.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.