It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I really have no interest in myself.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

To lead people walk behind them.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Character is destiny.