I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

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

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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.

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

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I think that success is having fun.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

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

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

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

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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!

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.