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

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

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

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.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

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

Fortune befriends the bold.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. 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.

Aim for the highest.

Think and grow rich.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

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

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

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

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.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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?

The only way round is through.

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.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

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.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

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

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

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.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.