Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

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.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

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

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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

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

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Success is the child of audacity.