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

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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.

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

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

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.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

What is once well done is done forever.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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