There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I give the children education.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I am results-oriented.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

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.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

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

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

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

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

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.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.