You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

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

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

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

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

An index is a great leveller.

I’m filthy rich!

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

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.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.