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

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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.

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.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

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

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

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.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.