We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

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

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

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

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

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

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Big results require big ambitions.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

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

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

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. That is what we do.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I put together amazing records, whether that’s finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That’s me being an A&R. And I’m making sure that they give me their best.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

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.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

To be free is to have achieved your life.