They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

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.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.