Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

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.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

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.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

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

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.