Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

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

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I like to work and am a focused person.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

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

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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

Think and grow rich.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.