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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

Our work is never over.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Fortune befriends the bold.

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.

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

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

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

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

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

War is the business of barbarians.

I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Without failure there is no achievement.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.