I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

The reward of suffering is experience.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I give the children education.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

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.

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.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

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

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

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.

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

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

This lady is not for turning.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

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

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

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

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.