To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

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.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

All men are equal before fish.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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?‘

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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.

Well done is better than well said.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

It is right to give every man his due.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

I’m filthy rich!

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.