One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

What one has to do usually can be done.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Affluence means influence.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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.

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.‘

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

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

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.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

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.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

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.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.