Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis PresleyIf a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.
Robert Greene‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘
DJ KhaledI’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.
Sunil ChhetriEngland is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon BonaparteNecessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark TwainTwo kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
Jeff BezosOur Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.
Russell M. NelsonThe thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
Robert KiyosakiWe’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
Mark ZuckerbergIt’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.
Richard M. NixonAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark TwainThe world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel JohnsonWe learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle ObamaThe greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.
Anthony BourdainI identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
Nipsey HussleThe majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon HillMy success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.
Kevin HartWhen we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.
Mark ZuckerbergTo have a comeback, you have to have a setback.
Mr. TAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George EliotLuck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEven though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.
Lando NorrisThings do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. KennedyAs much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.
J. ColeIt’s never crowded along the extra mile.
Wayne DyerWhat’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesThose who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous HuxleyNo, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.
J. K. RowlingDon’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
Jocko WillinkThe thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘
Robert KiyosakiWhen small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon BonaparteStarting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
Elon MuskIn the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Paulo CoelhoA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry FordI like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret ThatcherThe average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew CarnegieI’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.
David ByrneBattle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. PattonThe woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia EarhartThe most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil GibranThe few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim RohnHe shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
VoltaireI know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Ray BradburyI always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Elon MuskYou can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale CarnegieOn one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
Richard BransonSuccess does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard ShawIf you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack ObamaI don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Lady GagaWhile they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen KellerEarn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. MenckenInstead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
Stephen CoveyIf you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
Richard BransonIn my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
Jackie RobinsonMy business is to prevent the future.
Ray BradburyIn ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.
Robert KiyosakiA man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson