I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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

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.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Applause waits on success.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

I am results-oriented.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

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!

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

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

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.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.