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

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

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

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

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.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

My drive is other people’s 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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.