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

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

There is no substitute for victory.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

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

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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!‘

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.