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

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

I am results-oriented.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Think and grow rich.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.