I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Dream and you shall become.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

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.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

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.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.