The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

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.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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 was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

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

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

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

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.