People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

We must use time creatively.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Well done is better than well said.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

It is always your next move.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.