I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

Well begun is half done.

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

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

My business is to prevent the future.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

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.

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.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

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

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

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

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

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