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

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

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.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Let the path be open to talent.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

All great achievements require time.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

As for our majority… one is enough.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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

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

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.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

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

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

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.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.