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.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

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.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

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

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

My drive is other people’s success.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

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.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

Big results require big ambitions.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

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.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

There is no substitute for victory.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

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

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

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.