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

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I give the children education.

My success rate speaks for itself.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

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

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

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

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

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.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

I am results-oriented.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.