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.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

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.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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

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.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

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

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

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

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.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

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.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

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.