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

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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.

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.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

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

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

A friend in power is a friend lost.