In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

People want you to fail.

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

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Everybody has a purpose.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

People want to feel hopeful.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.