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

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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

If you deserve it, go get it.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Music is something no one can control.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

My drive is other people’s success.

There is no substitute for victory.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Of course awards matter.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.