Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Success is not a stop sign.

No great thing is created suddenly.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

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

There is no education like adversity.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.