Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

To make headway, improve your head.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, ‚Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators. We’re also inventors. We’re also thoughtful.‘

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I think that success is having fun.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.