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.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

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

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

The time is always right to do what is right.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

From caring comes courage.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

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.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.