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.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

My life has been very full.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

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

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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.

Power is competence.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

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

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.