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.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

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

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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.

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.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

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

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.