It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

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.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.