One man cannot practice many arts with success.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

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.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Success is not a stop sign.

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

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

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

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

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.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

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.

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.

The little man is still a man.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

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

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

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

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

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

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I think that success is having fun.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.