Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

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.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

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.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

My drive is other people’s success.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

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.

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.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

No great thing is created suddenly.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.