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

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Never, never, never give up.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

What keeps me going is goals.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

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.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.