When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

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.

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.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

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

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.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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.

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.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

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.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Science is magic that works.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Imagination decides everything.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

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

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.