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.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

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.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

If you deserve it, go get it.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

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.

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.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

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

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

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.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Of course, I do everything for money.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.