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.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The thing is, ‚Discworld‘ had been going on for a very long time, and I’ve written children’s books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I’d do is I’d franchise it to myself.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

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.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

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.

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.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Genius is patience.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.