The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

I was an overnight sensation.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

To lead people walk behind them.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.