If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

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.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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

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

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

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.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Well begun is half done.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.