If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

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

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Big results require big ambitions.

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

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

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

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says ‚actor.‘ It don’t say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that’s one thing that keeps me humble.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

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

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

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

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.