If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

A man’s character is his fate.

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

Observe all men, thyself most.

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I’m not the most patient of people.

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

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

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

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Character is power.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.