Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

To make headway, improve your head.

What you are comes to you.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Well done is better than well said.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.