I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

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.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

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.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I just want to do well with the national team.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.