After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

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.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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.

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

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. 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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

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

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

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

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.