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.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Political courage is not political suicide.

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

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

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

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

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

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

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

My drive is other people’s success.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

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.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pages, not the back pages. In time, it’s possible that your company will stand out from the crowd, and you’ll be successful.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

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

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.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Applause waits on success.

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

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.