If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

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

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

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

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

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

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.