It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

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!

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

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 try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

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.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.