I’m filthy rich!

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

I think that success is having fun.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Success is the child of audacity.

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.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

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?

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

America is another name for opportunity.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.