I’m filthy rich!

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

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.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

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

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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!‘

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

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

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

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.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.