The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

We make war that we may live in peace.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

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

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.