The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.