It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

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

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.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

I was an overnight sensation.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

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.

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.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

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

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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

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.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

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.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.