Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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.

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

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.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I like to work.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Time is money.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

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

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

My drive is other people’s success.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

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

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.