I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

My drive is other people’s success.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

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

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

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

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

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

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

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

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 best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.