The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

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 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.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Dream and you shall become.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

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

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Life is a dead-end street.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.