When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

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

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

A jug fills drop by drop.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.