The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

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

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

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.

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

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

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

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.