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.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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

No great thing is created suddenly.

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.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I am results-oriented.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

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.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

I was an overnight sensation.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

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’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

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.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

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.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

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 competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.