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.

Never complain. Never explain.

Success is not a stop sign.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Passions are the gales of life.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

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

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I’m chasing perfection.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.