Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Let the path be open to talent.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

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

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

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

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

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

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Genius is patience.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.