I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

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

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

All great achievements require time.

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

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

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

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

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

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

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Well done is better than well said.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

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.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

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.