Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

There is no substitute for victory.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

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

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

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

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

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

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

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 seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.