We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Fortune befriends the bold.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

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

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

There is no substitute for victory.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

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

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

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.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.