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

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Success is the child of audacity.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I am results-oriented.

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

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

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

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Affluence means influence.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

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

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

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.