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

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I’m selfish.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

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.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Never find fault with the absent.