A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

I’m committed to the fight game.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

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

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.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I always make my dreams into goals.

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

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.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

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

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

I am a grafter.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

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.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

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.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.