If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

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.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Forget the past.

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

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

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.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

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.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

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

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.