Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

All great achievements require time.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Let the path be open to talent.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.