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

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

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.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The 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%.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

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.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I am results-oriented.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Success is the child of audacity.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.