The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

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.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

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.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Think and grow rich.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.