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.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Music is really driving my whole life.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

You are victors, not victims!

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

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.

I just want to do well with the national team.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Nothing will work unless you do.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

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.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.