I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I am results-oriented.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

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

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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.

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

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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.

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 man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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

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.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.