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

Boldness be my friend.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I’m not a centerfold.

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.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

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

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.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

By indignities men come to dignities.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I was an overnight sensation.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.