A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

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

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

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.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

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.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I have goals.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

There is no substitute for victory.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

In married life three is company and two none.