Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

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.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I just want to do well with the national team.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.