I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

My reputation grows with every failure.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

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.

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.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

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.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

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.

Choose people who lift you up.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The older you get, the better you get.

To make headway, improve your head.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.