If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I was an overnight sensation.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

There is no substitute for victory.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

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

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Hate has no place in the house of God.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

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 explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

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

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?