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

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

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

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

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

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

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

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

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!

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

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

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

To make headway, improve your head.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.