If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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.

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

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

My reputation precedes me now.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Never take anything for granted.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.