That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

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 think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Americans never quit.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

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

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.