I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Delay is preferable to error.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

I just want to do well with the national team.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Success has always been a great liar.

Better never than late.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

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

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I don’t care about money.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.