People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

What keeps me going is goals.

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.

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.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

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.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Over the years I’ve met quite a few big rappers. Then it exploded with 50 Cent, and I did a book with him. It’s always a strange meeting of two worlds, it’s very exciting.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Actor’s life is very long.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

America is another name for opportunity.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Pop music will never be low brow.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.