Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Time is the least thing we have of.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

I am results-oriented.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Delay is preferable to error.

Lost time is never found again.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

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

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

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

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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.