We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

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

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

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.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

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

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

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.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

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

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Aim for the highest.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Without failure there is no achievement.

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

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.