When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

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

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

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

There’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

The best way out is always through.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Success is not a stop sign.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

You fail only if you stop writing.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.