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

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

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

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Time is money.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

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

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

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

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

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

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.