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.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

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.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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

I always make my dreams into goals.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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!

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

People want you to fail.

Money does not change people, people change.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.