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

Success is the child of audacity.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

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.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

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

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

I got my own back.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

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.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

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.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

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.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

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.