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.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

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

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Big results require big ambitions.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I was an overnight sensation.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

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