I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

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.

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.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

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!

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.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.