I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

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

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

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.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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

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.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Affluence means influence.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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.

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

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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

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

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

Well begun is half done.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

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.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.