If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

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

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

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

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.