My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Without failure there is no achievement.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

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.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Money ain’t everything.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Well begun is half done.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

Think and grow rich.

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

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.