Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

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

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

I always make my dreams into goals.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

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.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

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.

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.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.