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

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Opportunity makes a thief.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Applause waits on success.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

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.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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