Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

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

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Never mistake motion for action.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

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

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I never say I am a guru.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.