Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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

If you deserve it, go get it.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

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.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

All great achievements require time.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

People want you to fail.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

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.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.