Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

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.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

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

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

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.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I can dance to just about anything.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

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.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

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.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.