A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

I always make my dreams into goals.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

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.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

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

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

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

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

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.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

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

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.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

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

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.