There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

We will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Success has always been a great liar.

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

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

He who is contented is rich.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

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.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

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

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

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

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

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

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