No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

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

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

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.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

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!

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.

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 believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Of course awards matter.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

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

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

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

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

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.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

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

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.