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.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

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

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

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

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

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

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.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.