Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Enemies are so stimulating.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

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

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

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

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.