My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

What one has to do usually can be done.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

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.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I was an overnight sensation.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

An army marches on its stomach.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

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

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

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.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

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.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

I don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.