Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

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.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

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

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.