I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Well done is better than well said.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

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.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

If you deserve it, go get it.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I am results-oriented.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Genius is patience.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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

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

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

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.